Embattled: A Review
The Review reviews Emily Katz Anhalt ’80’s newest book.
Arts & Culture
The Devil May Dance: A Review
Dartmouth alumnus Jake Tapper ‘91 is known mainly for his work as an anchor on CNN. His earlier career as an author tended to focus…
Three Days at Camp David: A Review
`The global monetary system often goes unnoticed by an American public whose concern over the economy usually only extends to gas prices, unemployment numbers, and…
A New Idea of India: A Review
A New Idea of India, written by Harsh Madhusudan (’09) and Rajeev Mantri provides a fascinating vision of an India informed by a free-market, secularist…
Race Against Time: A Review
In less than 25 years from now, white people will become a minority in America. Keith Boykin ’87 connects this fact to what he argues is a latent racism in white Americans that will ignite a racial civil war in Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, a digestible and at times revelatory but ultimately unconvincing synopsis of the trajectory of race in America.
Lift Every Voice and Swing: A Review
Matthew O. Skrod reviews Professor Vaughn Booker’s recent, innovative study of jazz and African American religious authority.
The Right to Bear Arms: A Review
This divergence between the right to possess and carry around a weapon as expressed in the Constitution and its recognition (or lack thereof) by individual states serves as the topic of The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of People or a Privilege of the Working Class?, the newest analysis of Second Amendment history by noted appellate lawyer and scholar Stephen Halbrook.
Buckley, Yale, and The Dartmouth Review
Matthew O. Skrod reflects on William F. Buckley’s first book, seventy years on, and comments on the present state of affairs at Dartmouth.
Review Reviews: Telluride Comes to Dartmouth
Matthew O. Skrod reviews the six films screened at Dartmouth in September 2021 following their appearance at the Telluride Film Festival earlier in the month.
The Aesthetic of Erasure
I have only recently begun to do my studying in the East Reading Room. In terms past, I have preferred to work in the older,…