Roger Ebert’s forthcoming book Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert; Forty years of Reviews, Essays, and Interviews, details almost a half century’s
In the July 21, 2006, issue of the New York weekly Forward, Allan Nadler finds Steven B. Smith’s Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism a
Michael Taussig has emerged as one of our most daring intellectuals. His books, which blend rigorous anthropological theory with elements of memoir, literary theory, archival
The recent convictions of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Tom Skilling are merely the latest names in a spate of verdicts handed down against
The July 14 issue of the Times Literary Supplement carried a review by Jonathan Mirsky of four books about Asian cities. Two of the books
In the July 31, 2006, issue of The New Republic, Damon Linker reviews two books about Leo Strauss, including Steven B. Smith’s Reading Leo Strauss:
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A recent article by John C. Hudson in the Chicago Sun-Times discusses how race and class “skewed the city’s grand symmetrical plans by, in essence,
On the night of July 24, 1943, nearly 800 Allied aircraft unleashed a massive aerial bombardment of the city of Hamburg. Operation Gomorrah, as it
Today’s Wall Street Journal features a review by Matt Ridley of Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues The book is, says Ridley, “an exhaustive philosophical treatise
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