Recently finished reading Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. I unreservedly recommend it to just about anyone interested in the Founding Fathers and the American Revolution. Chernow is clearly sympathetic to Hamilton in his conflicts against Jefferson, Madison, and the other Republicans. Chernow does not overlook the faults of his hero, which led to animosity on the part […]
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This is the grave of Alexander Woollcott. Born in 1887 in Colts Neck, New Jersey, Woollcott grew up in somewhat unusual circumstances. He lived in an 85 room house but his family was not wealthy. For
Amazon Barnes and Noble Description In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law—and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trade
When I have finished the war in Italy I will lead the French myself and will force the Russians to re-establish Poland On the political complexities of deploying post-INF missiles in Japan. The willingness of US allies to host post-INF missiles (missiles with longer than a 500km range) depends almost entirely upon threat perceptions of […]
Rich Americans have long fetishized the free market, going all the way back to the post-Civil War era. Gilded Age liberals, which in today’s parlance, would be free market conservatives–th
Phil Deloria, the acclaimed historian who is the son of the famous Vine Deloria, reminds us in this book review that there are far greater problems with Thanksgiving than just the culinary crimes of t
This is the grave of Ralph Ellison. Born in 1914 in Oklahoma City, Ellison grew up without a father. See, African-Americans worked the most dangerous jobs at a time when all jobs were pretty unsafe. So not surprisingly, Ellison’s dad died on the job in 1916, when a 100 pound block of ice pierced his […]
Something I’ve noticed among my leftier-than-thou friends is a continuing tendency to minimize how historically disastrous the Trump presidency actually is. This dovetails nicely with an incre
Would someone check on Kurt Schlichter? I don’t think he’s doing so well, judging from his latest Townhall entry, a book review where he never actually reviews a book. It’s ve
As I am desperately trying to write the draft of my book on strikes, one of the things I’ve had to sacrifice is writing book reviews here. They take too long to do well. But I did want to note a few relatively recently published books I’ve read recently that could be of interest to […]
The best book reviews are as much about the review author as the book being reviewed while at the same time being fair to the book. That’s what I strive for when I review, although probably with
Steve Lubet has tracked down the person who could well be Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s source for the off the record claim in this part of GLK’s profile of Alice Goffman: When it comes to Goffmanâ