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Babies By Design: A Brave New World? — April 21, 2008

A Time to Every Purpose — February 8, 2008

Mike Gerson, You're my Hero! — January 25, 2008

The Surrender of the Spirit — January 25, 2008

All in the Family — January 25, 2008

Allahu Overrated? — January 25, 2008

Maybe Now You’ll Get Into Harvard — August 5, 2007

James Freedman’s Finding the Words: Plenty Already, Thanks — July 16, 2007

John Ledyard: the Original Hard Guy — May 18, 2007

Finding the Words—Plenty Already — May 14, 2007

Notes of a Curmudgeon in Clover — April 24, 2007

You Want to Put That Where? — March 1, 2007

“But AD’s the Worst House on Campus” — January 12, 2007

To Arms, at All Costs — January 12, 2007

And Starring John Wilkes Booth as Himself — January 12, 2007

Dog-Collared Svengalis — January 12, 2007

The Other Side of Paradise — January 12, 2007

Andrew Sullivan: Pick a ’Con — January 12, 2007

The West’s Last Gasp — January 12, 2007

Fitzgerald and Hemingway; Modernism Goes Mainstream — November 28, 2006

Perrin’s Pastoral Paradise — November 9, 2006

Lolita at 50: She’s Finally Legal — October 13, 2006

Summer Reading: Total Volshit — October 1, 2006

Honestly, Who Are These People? — May 18, 2006

TDR Book Review: Playing the Game — May 5, 2006

In Search of Truth: Science and Religion — May 5, 2006

Manliness After Patriarchy — April 7, 2006

Horowitz Misses the Point (Again) — April 7, 2006

Our Underachieving Colleges — March 3, 2006

Nobody Funds an Abstraction — February 10, 2006

Dartmouth's Chosen Sons: A History of Admission and Exclusion — January 9, 2006

The Greatness of Samuel Johnson — January 9, 2006

Shakespeare Entombed — January 9, 2006

TDR 25: Dinesh D'Souza: Lincoln's Statesmanship — January 9, 2006

Team of Rivals: Lincoln's Genius — January 9, 2006

We're All Hipsters Now — January 9, 2006

Narnian Tales: The Life of C.S. Lewis — January 9, 2006

Hanson's Unique War — January 9, 2006

Statism By Any Other Name? — January 9, 2006

On Beauty and Zadie Smith — January 9, 2006

Shorter Notices — January 9, 2006

The American Conservative Mind: Where We Are Now — November 22, 2005

Evil, Be Thou My Good — November 22, 2005

Neff's So Navy — October 21, 2005

Dan Linsalata: Clever With His Lever — October 21, 2005

Myth and Madness in the Middle East — October 7, 2005

Charles Colson's Life Redeemed — September 22, 2005

Guns, Lesbians, and Guillotines — August 26, 2005

South Park Is Not Conservative — August 26, 2005

The Witchhammer — July 22, 2005

College's Winners and Losers — July 22, 2005

Ross Douthat Explores Harvard: The Iviest of the Ivy League — June 12, 2005

One Good Thing About the French — June 2, 2005

Babes in Boyland: When Women Were Co-Hogs — May 13, 2005

Recontracting with America — April 22, 2005

John Ledyard's Insatiable Wanderlust — April 22, 2005

Ross Douthat Explores Harvard: The Iviest of the Ivy League — April 8, 2005

Midwestern Girl Gone Wild — April 8, 2005

Charles Vest on the Research University — March 11, 2005

Feeding Maya Angelou's Soul — March 11, 2005

The Spell of Dartmouth Football — January 31, 2005

In the Shadow of Art Spiegelman: A Graphic Review — January 12, 2005

Who is Charlotte Simmons? — January 12, 2005

Perpetual Fear and Ineffable Outrage — January 12, 2005

Threnody For Old School Dartmouth. — January 12, 2005

September 11th and Noam Chomsky — January 12, 2005

The Idiocy of Ideologues — January 12, 2005

His Excellency, George Washington — January 12, 2005

American Prospect and Retrospect — January 12, 2005

Whither the Masters? — January 12, 2005

Book Review: WFB's Miles Gone By — November 24, 2004

Thank You, Sir, May I Have Another? — October 19, 2004

Frosh Summer Reading: For the Birds — October 4, 2004

'Sorority Girls Do Not Have Sex' — May 11, 2004

What Would Your Ovaries Wear? — April 26, 2004

The Making of An Artful Warrior — February 16, 2004

Give 'em Zell, Boys! — January 23, 2004

Metrophobia: My Latest Prejudice — January 14, 2004

Should We Bury the Hatchet? Good God, Of Course We Shouldn't — January 14, 2004

Ideology and Interest in a Unipolar World: Of Paradise and Power — January 14, 2004

Shut Up and Sing — January 14, 2004

A Bright Shining Lie: Who's Right About Vietnam? — January 14, 2004

Judgment Ridge — November 17, 2003

Ronald Reagan Changed My Life — November 3, 2003

The Language Police on Patrol — June 2, 2003

Survival of Culture: Rejecting the Spurious — March 23, 2003

Conservative Guidance — November 27, 2002

Esse Quam Videre — November 3, 2002

Easy Reading — November 3, 2002

The Critical Battle — November 3, 2002

Rich Kids Are Self-Absorbed — October 15, 2002

Coming to America — September 27, 2002

Swallow Your Pride: Kill Duck Before Serving — May 29, 2002

Ambing into a Book: Ambling into History — May 29, 2002

Why the West Won...and Still Does: Carnage and Culture — May 13, 2002

A Life of Lies: Brock's Confession — April 15, 2002

The Optimistic Future: The Skeptical Environmentalist — April 1, 2002

Revisiting Reparations — April 1, 2002

Handguns: Fighting for Freedom — April 1, 2002

In Brief: Revisiting Truman Capote — April 1, 2002

Not Tonight Honey: Celibacy Through History; James Baehr Reviews 'A History of Celibacy' — February 4, 2002

The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Ivory Towers on Sand' — February 4, 2002

Silent, Deep, and Dangerous: Alexander Talcott Reviews 'Bias' — January 21, 2002

Madonna: Naked to the World — December 3, 2001

Educatin in 'The Age of Now': Jeffrey Shaw Reviews 'Non Campus Mentis' — November 12, 2001

Four Millenia of Literary Utopias: From Plato to Orwell; J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'The Faber Book of Utopias' — November 12, 2001

Would You Like Fries With That? J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Fast Food Nation' — October 29, 2001

Odd Trip to the Market: Darren Thomas Reviews The Dialectics of Shopping by Daniel Miller — October 22, 2001

Tom Spence '83: Vox Clamantis — October 15, 2001

The Kangaroo Court on Kissinger: Review of 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger' — October 15, 2001

Salvaging Classical Studies: J. Lawrence Scholer Reviews 'Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age' — October 15, 2001

Why Western Thought Still Matters: Stella Baer Reviews 'Shining Through the Cultural Catastrophe' — October 1, 2001

The Church and the Holy Mother: Alison Jeffe Reviews 'Hail Holy Queen' — May 28, 2001

Theories of an Ethical Death — March 12, 2001

Smashing a Coconut with a Hammer — March 12, 2001

Huxley Essays: A Treasure Recovered — March 12, 2001

What More Honor Could They Pay Us? — March 12, 2001

Beyond the Cricket Test — March 12, 2001

Weathering the Wired World — March 12, 2001

A Suicide, a Stripper, and a Dwarf — March 12, 2001

Guns Save Lives — February 26, 2001

A War on Guns — February 26, 2001

Lock and Lowbrow — February 26, 2001

Because You're a Racist! — February 12, 2001

To Have and to Hold — February 12, 2001

Halfway Heaven: A Personal Odyssey — January 29, 2001

Ouch: Hate Hurts — January 29, 2001

A Call to Arms — January 15, 2001

Running Backwards — January 15, 2001

Who's a Republican? — January 15, 2001

Ten Things You Can't Say In America — October 30, 2000

Papal Sin: Misrepresentation Corrected — October 30, 2000

Sexual Politics, Biological Consequences — October 2, 2000

The Playground of Europe — October 2, 2000

Dartmouth's Doomsday Prophet — September 18, 2000

Dartmouth's Sexual Universe — April 10, 2000

America: A Raw Deal for Men? — April 10, 2000

The Rock Writes — April 10, 2000

Death and Rebirth — March 13, 2000

A Poorly Drawn Map — February 7, 2000

Germans Love David Hasselhoff — February 7, 2000

The Final Descent: Hemingway's Last Years — August 16, 1999

'The Body' Writes a 'Book' — August 16, 1999

Feminist Harassment: Nebulous Boundaries — July 8, 1999

Rum, Women, and Song: Benjamin Oren Reviews 'The Rum Diary' — February 3, 1999

Podhoretz's Literary Kiss-and-Tell: Jeffrey Hart Reviews 'Ex-Friends' — February 3, 1999

Love! Valour! Compassion! Catherine Muscat Reviews 'A Return to Modesty' — February 3, 1999

Rules of Attraction: Ram Murali Reviews 'Glamorama' — January 20, 1999

Milton Friedman's Song Of Myself: Christopher Pearson Reviews 'Two Lucky People' — December 15, 1998

Pugilism and its Discontents: Benjamin Wallace-Wells Reviews 'King of the World' — December 15, 1998

Halfway Heaven: A Personal Odyssey — November 10, 1998

Remnick and Morrison — October 28, 1998

Modern Pulp: The Times' Top Five Fiction Bestsellers: Reviewed by Andrew Grossman — October 28, 1998

A Right Turn on a Red Light: Ben Oren Reviews 'The Comedy Writer' — October 28, 1998

Mastering the Lindy Hop: Jeffrey Hart Reviews 'Lindbergh' — October 28, 1998

Collins V. Pynchon: Literary Hexathalon — October 28, 1998

Bowen and Bok's New Book: Benjamin Wallace-Wells reviews 'The Shape of the River' — October 7, 1998

Poets or Pundits? — August 31, 1998

Digging into the Subterranean Kerouac — August 31, 1998

Ram Murali Finds Literary Perfection: Review of 'The Secret History' — August 31, 1998

The Foul Taste of Freedom: Christopher Pearson Reviews 'For Your Own Good' — August 31, 1998

Dean Goldsmith's Little Book — August 31, 1998

Bart Giamatti: A Better Class of People — August 31, 1998

Rhymes With Kitsch: Ram Murali Reviews 'Bitch' — May 27, 1998

Lebed's Lusty Leviathan: Alexander Wilson Reviews 'My Life and My Country' — April 22, 1998

Navarro and Steinem's New Companion — April 15, 1998

Coloring Admissions: 'A is for Admission' — January 21, 1998

A Spiritual Tonic: Conor Dugan Reviews ' — January 14, 1998

The Wonder Years: Christopher Pearson Reviews 'Ronald Reagan' — November 19, 1997

An Interview With Dinesh D'Souza — November 19, 1997

Secrets of the Temple: Christopher Pearson Reviews 'A is for Admission' — November 2, 1997

Why Did Reich Lie? — October 15, 1997

Unlocking the Cabinet — October 15, 1997

Pearson Takes a Walk on the Wild Side — October 15, 1997

Idealism and Liberal Education: President Freedman's Little Book — June 4, 1997

Pearson Walks on the Wild Side: Reviews 'Walk on the Wild Side' and 'Locked in the Cabinet' — May 28, 1997

Katharine Graham: A Real Feminist; Emily Trinks Reviews 'Personal History' — May 7, 1997

Not Bad, But Wait For Paperback: Conor Dugan Reviews 'The Partner' — April 23, 1997

The Roots of Football — October 2, 1996

The American Mentalité: Book Shorts by Longinus — May 22, 1996

Extolling the Presidents: Charles Gibson Reviews 'Character Above All' — May 15, 1996

The Not Too Distant Future ... Emily Trinks Reviews 'Infinite Jest' — May 1, 1996