My review of Jesse Eisenger's The Chickenshit Club can be found here It was published in National Review print magazine (subscription), so this link will bring you to the article, where you will have some options. A teaser: Do companies break the law, or do people? Because a...
It may seem surprising that a review of a "sports book" would appear on my site, where book reviews are essentially reserved for the domain of politics and economics. But that surprise would stem from a gigantic misunderstanding, for Shoedog is no "sports book." Rather,...
Sebastian Mallaby's More Money than God was one of the truly great books written in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and one I praised on this very website six years ago (https://davidbahnsen.wpengine.com/?s=More+money+than+god). He is a gifted writer, a cogent thinker, and in The Man...
The very first of what surely will not be the last books to survey the history-making 2016 Presidential election has hit the streets, and you will be hard-pressed to find a politico who hasn't read it. Shattered has received much buzz, and for good reason...
There are only a few writers still writing who I have been reading religiously for over 30 years. O'Rourke is one of them, and the reason is that he is a gifted writer, a brilliant humorist, and more than anything else, enables his readers to...
William Cohan is a magnificent author, perhaps one of my favorites, with his House of Cards on the fall of Bear Stearns being an utter masterpiece, and his frequent writing in Vanity Fair and such being compelling and mature. Furthermore, the general thesis of his...
I should preface this book review by saying that nothing went the way I expected with reading this book. I had hoped to get a pretty deep dive into the history of how one of my most valued asset management partners (SkyBridge Capital) came into...
I have commented privately and written publicly more times than I can count how badly the conservative movement needs its 20th century torch-bearer right now, Bill Buckley. It is a common approach to take in times of frustration and even desperation - reflect on a...
Yuval Levin's The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism does something for the conservative movement that it is in more need of than anytime in history: It proposes to break from the nostalgia of the post-war 20th century, it offers...
It would be difficult to say if I spent more time reading Charles Sykes' new Fail U: The False Promise of Higher Education in a state of anger or of depression. The topic is near and dear to my heart for a variety of reasons,...
