Reviewing really excellent books is great fun: You learn important new facts, are hugely impressed by an author’s analytical ability or archival research, or come away with a far deeper understanding of someone you knew only passingly. In stark contrast, having to review a really bad book is deeply unpleasant and sticks in your memory
It is not wrong to say that America made C.S. Lewis. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters was popular in Britain but was initially rejected by American publishers until Macmillan took a chance on it in 1943. It was a huge success. Macmillan quickly brought out his The Problem of Pain and The Case for
In What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, comedian Bill Maher distills decades of political and cultural insight into a single volume with the goal of tackling the most important issues of our time while remedying any loss of “philosophical coherence” for longtime viewers of his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher. Across 24
A New York judge ruled against requiring the word ‘abortion’ in a ballot measure description for an anti-discrimination amendment. A New York judge has declined to compel state election officials to explicitly mention the word “abortion” in the description of a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at expanding anti-discrimination protections, dealing a setback to Democrats who
When Tim Walz launched his 2006 campaign for Congress in rural Minnesota, he boasted in his public biography that in 1993, he “was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.” That was not true. It was a small lie about
The hackers were identified as the same Iranian group identified by the U.S. intelligence community for targeting the Trump, Biden-Harris campaigns. Meta said Friday it has blocked a group of fake WhatsApp accounts connected to an Iranian hacker group that was identified as being behind the targeting of staffers working on U.S. presidential election campaigns.
Attendees of the Trump ally in Glendale, Arizona give their reaction to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement. GLENDALE, Ariz.—Former president Donald Trump introduced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the “special guest” at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, just hours after Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign. Kennedy 70, a former Democrat, withdrew his candidacy as an