Chapo Trap House’s revolution fizzles
The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason by Chapo Trap House reviewed
Books
Saturday
Saturday
Stormy Daniels’s honesty issues
Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels reviewed
Tuesday
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen speaks from beyond the grave
More power and glory from the dead poet, singer, lover and humourist
Tuesday
Reagan, victor of the Cold War, with a little help from Lech Walesa and the Pope
A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA, and the Cold War Struggle in Poland by Seth G. Jones reviewed
Monday
How moderates can save immigration reform
Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders reviewed
Thursday
The scramble for the Middle East: Britain and America fall out
Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr reviewed
Wednesday
Did the Russian mafia help Trump along his way to the Oval Office?
House of Trump, House of Putin by Craig Unger reviewed.
Monday
Meet Michiko Kakutani, the conservative
The former New York Times reviewer’s study of truth reveals how she’s been driven to outrage by the erosion of cultural and critical values.
Thursday
‘President Pussy Grabber’ has his way with the GOP
A new book argues that Trump could destroy the Republican Party.
Wednesday
The comic masterpiece of Donald J. Trump
Conrad Black explains how the President consistently and hilariously outplays his enemies, provoking and then exploiting the friction between him and them to raise himself to ever greater heights.
Friday
Lionel Shriver and the rigging of the book market
Should the arts reflect the demographic make-up of their society, and be subject to quotas and affirmative action, in the name of diversity? Or should they be exempt from the imposition of quotas, as a meritocracy in which the only affirmative action is the one that recognises talent? This, I reckon, is the question at … Read more
Monday
How I became Peter Fallow
Arranging a dinner between Tom Wolfe and Christopher Hitchens led to my immortalisation in literature.
Friday
What does Ronan Farrow want next?
The ‘Hollywood prince who torched the castle’ is to this decade what Samantha Power was to the last
Wednesday
The sex-mad genius of Philip Roth
A few years ago I asked Martin Amis about Philip Roth. “All his dildos,” he replied, “he’s not letting it go.” At the time the comment struck me as harsh, but this morning when I saw the sad news of Roth’s death I remembered it with a little amusement. I understood what Amis was getting at: Roth … Read more
Tuesday
Churchill was all in favour of a united Europe — as long as it didn’t include Britain
Dr Felix Klos is an extremely personable, highly intelligent American-Dutch historian who has undertaken much archival research, worked extremely hard and is an excellent writer. In trying to persuade us that Churchill favoured Britain joining a federal Europe, however, he comes up against several immovable obstacles. The most serious of these is that in the … Read more
Thursday
Will white supremacy always haunt America?
I found Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book We Were Eight Years in Power surprisingly engaging. It combines a calm, friendly voice with a message of cold extremity. The message is that the sin of white supremacy is the true plot of US history. By trying to cure it, Obama exposed its true torrential force. The geniality of … Read more
Saturday
His dark materials
In this giant, prodigiously sourced and insightful biography, John A. Farrell shows how Richard Milhous Nixon was the nightmare of the age for many Americans, even as he won years of near-adulation from many others. One can only think of Donald Trump. Nixon appealed to lower- and lower-middle-class whites from the heartland, whose hatred of … Read more
