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…
Book Reviews
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.
First Duty: A Review
In an age of iron triangles and revolving doors, impossible-to-audit defense budgets and “national security professionals,” does the quality and character of the middle-aged man…
Mark My Words: A Review
In his new book Mark My Words: Reflections, Reminiscences and Recollections from a Life Well Lived, Dartmouth Class of 1953 Mark H. Smoller is able to walk the fine line of an impactful memoir for a targeted Dartmouth audience.
Accountable: A Review
My reading of Warren Valdmanis and Michael O’Leary’s Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism, could not have come at a better time. Valdmanis, a Dartmouth…
Afropessimism: A Review
Elijah T. Oaks ’23 reviews Frank B. Wilderson III ’78 newest book.
The Wrong Kind of Woman: A Review
When I first pulled my advanced reader copy of Sarah McCraw Crow’s most recent (and, as I would come to learn, first) novel from the…