This is the first of a series of eight reviews of books on the Patterson Summer Reading List.God, this is a terrible book.You get the sense that it's bad from the cover quotes. Gaddis: "No contemporary historian rivals ... Ferguson for the range, productivity, and...
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Echidne and Amanda have already addressed Ana Marie Cox's airheaded non-review of Katha Pollit's new book. One of its many idiotic points was to claim that Pollit must be kidding.
My introduction to Cicero came in a Classics class my freshman year at the University of Oregon. We read Against Verres I, an early case prosecuted by Cicero against the.
On the plane ride from London I finished Julian Jackson's The Fall of France. While I was disappointed with the first chapter, I was very pleased with the volume as a whole.It is common to assert that France fell because of inadequate tactical and operational...
I think a real weakness of progressives is our lack of knowledge of our opponents. We think we know about the Right but I don't see a whole lot of.
James Wolcott says what needs to be said with his trademark aplomb about everyone's favorite right-wing Stalinist film critic, Michael "I can't for the life of me imagine why people prefer.
Back in 1982, James Bamford published The Puzzle Palace, which opened the National Security Agency up to a previously unknown level of scrutiny. Bamford showed that the NSA had operated with virtually no public oversight since its inception, and that this led to predictable outcomes, including...
I knew that nothing good could come from my purchase of Master and Commander, the first book in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. I would either hate it, making the book a.
And now for something completely different. . . I've undergone a bizarre intellectual journey over the past couple of years. Talk to me in 2001, and you would find a.
The Poor Man on Imperial Hubris: The longest Tacitus post ever. Half right, half wrong, but mostly concerned with stridently asserting the author's own moral superiority to anyone at a higher pay grade. Makes a completely convincing case that Osama bin Laden's personal abilities and charisma...
Michael Berube has a good review of the strangely gripping piece of science fiction published by the New York Times today. I'm not really a big fan of the genre, but I.
The Habsburg Empire has always fascinated me. Whenever I play Diplomacy or a computer game based on 19th century Europe, I try to play Austria-Hungary. What most appeals to me.