Archives for Books
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
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