The Enchantment of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity; by Eugene McCarraher; Belknap Press; 816 pp., $39.95 When the German thinker Max Weber visited the United States in 1904, he was intrigued by the marked tendency . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber?...
A shadow haunts the world. Over the last 75 years it has spread its errors over everything: art, education, music, architecture, manners, morals, and thought itself. What is this colossal Harpy? Cultural Marxism. Commonly
In one of the most important acts of his Presidency, on Sept. 26, 2020, Donald J. Trump announced his pick to fill the United States Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Amy Coney Barrett. The Supreme Court has recently been divided 4 . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
Is the current left Marxist? In a provocative commentary, Bill Lind explores this genealogical question, and, unless I’m mistaken, the left and much of its media opposition would second his conclusions. Since Antifa describes itself as Marxist . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features....
The Politics may be the most influential study of political theory and political practice ever written. Aristotle put the book together while investigating different regimes in the Greek world and elsewhere. The philosopher denies the existence of an ideal government applicable to all societies; instead . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article...
One sometimes feels obliged to contextualize a disagreement, because the point in dispute has still not been clearly stated. I have written critically more than once about the works of C. Bradley Thompson, first about his study of neoconservatism, Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea (2010), and . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full...
Can a culture celebrate those who want to destroy it and still stand? We are about to find out in this fateful November. Until recently, I thought the word “demonic” no more than a figure of speech. It carried a chill dislodged from religious myth and absorbed . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America , 1929-1968, by David Stebenne (Scribner; 336 pp., $28.00). Dear David: I used the title of Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as my grading rubric for your submission on . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain...
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism; by Joel Kotkin; Encounter Books; 244 pp., $28.99 In the summer of 2003 my bride, our three little kids, and I headed to Chicago for that all-important summer job after my second year of law school . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive...
Humankind; by Rutger Bregman; Little, Brown, and Co.; 480 pp., $30.00 Rutger Bregman’s latest book is about what he calls a “radical idea” that has “long been known to make rulers nervous” and whose apostles will weather “a storm of ridicule . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to...
