Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by Anne Applebaum
Doubleday
224 pp., $25.00
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
W. W. Norton & Company
384 pp., $28.95
For some among the chattering classes, the electoral defeat
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Homeland Elegies: A Novel, by Ayad Akhtar (Little, Brown & Co.; 368 pp., $28.00).
Mark Twain wrote in his 1897 travel book, Following the Equator: “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick
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The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
by Luke A. Nichter
Yale University Press
544 pp., $37.50
Even before the Kennedys took center stage in American mythology, Americans have had their share of
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Impassioned attacks on critical race theory (CRT) are the subject of AMAC Magazine’s August issue. A publication of The Association of Mature American Citizens, a Republican alternative to the American Association of Retired People, the magazine’s lead editorial
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The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition (1995)
by Willmoore Kendall and George W. Carey
Catholic University of America Press
168 pp., $19.95
Ask the average American what his country stands for and he will likely answer “equality.” If
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Northwestern Europe’s early development owes much to the Carolingian dynasty, which led Germanic society into Christendom from the dead end of paganism. It set the stage for the lush flowering of knightly culture, with its ideals of chivalry, courtesy, and
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Lewis P. Simpson, in his memorable preface to The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate, evoked Thomas Carlyle’s description of Robert Burns to hail Davidson’s own achievement. Burns, wrote Carlyle, was a “piece of right Saxon stuff:
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Just when we thought cancel culture couldn’t possibly get sillier, new heights of inanity were achieved in March when Dr. Seuss Enterprises removed six of that author’s best known titles from its active publishing list upon recommendations from a “panel
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Donald Trump has a better track record of avoiding economic downturn than any Republican president since the GOP was founded in 1854. “A trough in monthly economic activity occurred in the US economy in April 2020,” a National Bureau of
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Mike Lindell is furious with me.
The Minnesota marketing genius, who pulled himself out of drug addiction and became a millionaire by selling pillows, is pointing a shaking finger at where I’m sitting in the gallery above the stage of
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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
by Rod Dreher
Sentinel-Penguin Books
256 pp., $14.69
Rod Dreher is not the first to argue that America, and much of the West, has undergone a radical transformation in the post-World
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