See further information on our selections here Download a PDF of this list here Dr. Brian Mattson Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books, Charles Kesler and John B. Kienker, eds. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the...
My friend, Brian Kennedy, President of the Claremont Institute, recently reminded me of Clarence Thomas's claim in his autobiography that he essentially had to teach himself conservatism via book-reading after he had completed college. For Thomas, he had been denied access to the masters...
I am trying to diligently finish up my multi-year project of reading and reviewing every noteworthy book pertaining to the great financial crisis of 2008. I have been quite behind in a lot of the reading I have assigned myself in this project (though...
Father Robert Sirico does not count as any ordinary Priest ...
I do not know if the title of this review is going to prove to be too melodramatic or not. I doubt it. I am doing my best to only take breaks from my financial crisis book review series for really special...
Robert Kagan is one of those authors who readers never have to worry about. He is not going to throw in a "dog" in a series of solid book projects. He is among the most qualified intellectuals in the world to...
In a lot of ways this book review does not belong in my series on the financial crisis of 2008 because well over 350 pages of the 500-page book have nothing to do with the financial crisis itself. But in one very...
When I first added Reckless Endangerment to my list of books to read in my series on the 2008 financial crisis, I saw that Gretchen Morgensen was a New York Times columnist, and assumed this book would be yet another carbon copy of...
I apologize in advance if you are a crazy conspiracy advocate who saw the title to this piece and got all excited about a new book regarding the CIA's assassination of John Kennedy, or George Soros' plan for one-world government, or Dick Cheney's...
It is not exactly newsworthy that some people blame Goldman Sachs for some pretty silly things. The initial hit-piece on Goldman Sachs came in a trendy rock n' roll magazine, of all places. I have defended Goldman Sachs before, and believe this reply...
