A Review of While Israel Slept
Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot provide the closest thing to a definitive account of the events of October 7 and its causes.
Book Reviews
A Review of Breaking the Engagement
David Shambaugh offers a nuanced, historically informed analysis of the sudden sea change in US-China relations.
A Review of The French Revolution
A new political history of the Revolution reveals the depths to which the nation sank.
A Review of Body and Identity
Sex and gender controversies point to a deeper kind of confusion.
Past Reviews
A Review of After the Spike
Even Peter Singer now acknowledges that population decline will become a problem.
A Review of Antisemitism and the Law
A jurisprudence that defines antisemitism in terms of “whiteness” and “privilege” trains students to confuse ideology with law.
A Review of On the Law of Speaking Freely
Adam Tomkins’s book shows the knotty history and evolution of free speech debates.
A Review of Émile Zola
A giant of nineteenth century literature, Émile Zola’s life and writings show that realism can be an antidote to the pathology of radicalism.
A Review of On Liberalism
Cass Sunstein’s defense of big-tent liberalism is welcome, but not without its flaws.
A Review of Total Defense
In his new book, Andrew Preston explores the origins of the modern, all-encompassing concept of “national security.”
A Review of 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love
Christopher Scalia’s new book refreshes the conservative literary imagination.
A Review of Realizing the Values of Art
Can a free society embrace artistic pluralism? Do we want that?
A Review of First Among Equals
Retrenchment is appealing to think tank intellectuals for reasons that have nothing to do with either prudence or realism.
A Review of Saving Can-Do
Alas, as with Thomas Paine, a rousing call to action is not the same as a blueprint for victory.
A Review of The Moderate Majority
Conventional wisdom holds that Republican voters are getting more extreme. But George Hawley’s book shows a fundamental moderation in their politics.
A Review of A Short History of Relations Between Peoples
John Ellis offers a necessary corrective to historians who have largely lost perspective on the past.
A Review of Patriots Before Revolution
Amy Watson’s new book argues that the transatlantic party ideology of Patriotism is essential for understanding the genesis of the American Revolution.
A Review of We the People
Constitutional limits just keep stymieing progress.