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2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (74+ words) The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson By Robert Demaria, Jr. and Dan Hitchens Cambridge University Press, 163 pages, $49 This book’s two authors make a real and laudable effort to reveal every side of Johnson without reducing him either to a dispenser…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (121+ words) Inevitable Differences: An Inquiry into Human Variation By J.E.R. Staddon Academica,, 2026, 174 pages, $100 A more honest reckoning with what makes individuals and communities succeed might do considerably more good than training sessions, reparations schemes, or the unrealistic principles of left wing thinkers....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (69+ words) Great Power Diplomacy: The Skill of Statecraft from Attila the Hun to Kissinger By A. Wess Mitchell Princeton, 2025, 352 pages, $27 Mitchell acknowledges that in great power politics, diplomacy unsupported by military power is little more than bluff. Global politics do not lend…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (65+ words) Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth By Michael Anton Encounter Books, 640 pages, $35 Anton is not sure that the republic can be saved, even though he applauds President Trump’s attempt to…...

11+ mon, 1+ day ago   (45+ words) What’s with Baum? By Woody Allen Post Hill Press, 192 pages, $28 Baum shares the tastes, preoccupations, and anhedonia of many of the protagonists of Woody Allen’s movies. READ MORE from Bruce Bawer: The Princess Weds Her Shaman Revisiting Three Days of…...