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The Nightmare of Californication
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November 1, 2025November 10, 2025Reviews

The Nightmare of Californication

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"Fool's Gold" shows how the quality of life in Newsom's California is rapidly declining due to lawlessness, crippling regulations, and corruption within government, corporations, and the courts.

The Political Roots of Science
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November 1, 2025November 1, 2025Reviews

The Political Roots of Science

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Restoring Science and the Rule of Law by Michael Esfeld and Cristian Lopez Palgrave Macmillan 224 pp., $109.99 Modernity, we are told, was erected upon the twin pillars of empirical inquiry and individual sovereignty. The two now lay crushed beneath the weight of their own overgrown progeny: the scientistic priesthood and the goliath of welfare...

Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, Eric Schmidt, Stanley K. Ridgley, DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit,
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November 1, 2025June 15, 2026Reviews

Books in Brief: November 2025

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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, by Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt (Little, Brown and Company; 288 pp., $30.00). This is Henry Kissinger’s last book. But, since he died before it was finished, it is disproportionately influenced by the former Nixon Secretary of State’s co-authors, executives from Microsoft and Google....

wokeism, Succession, Bridgerton, Yellowstone, The White Lotus, Palm Royale, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,
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November 1, 2025November 1, 2025Reviews

Downton Abbey Finally Wraps Up

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This is the third and mercifully final feature film in Julian Fellowes’s long-running 'Downton Abbey' franchise, which kicked off a wave of costumed period dramas characterized by cloying sentimentality and woke inclusivity.

What We Are Reading: October 2025
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October 1, 2025June 12, 2026Reviews

What We Are Reading: October 2025

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James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935) packed a great deal of both writing and left-wing activism into a short life. From an Aberdeenshire farming background, he worked in journalism, wrote fiction admired by H. G. Wells, and helped set up the Aberdeen Soviet. His trilogy, A Scots Quair, is still read in Scotland. He joined the military...

Boris the Blowhard
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October 1, 2025October 31, 2025Reviews

Boris the Blowhard

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Boris Johnson now profits, by way of premature memoir, off a career built on family connections and an ability to soothe voters with pleasant, but empty phrases. Behold the blowhard.

The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, Homer, Heliodorus of Emesa, racial prejudice, Persians, Hellenicity, Alexander the Great, the Eternal City, Rome, Athens, agriculture, architecture, art, food, language, learning, manufacturing, navigation, philosophy, religion, civilizational thinking, the civilizational model, racism, exploitation, hierarchism, imperialism, injustice,
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September 1, 2025September 2, 2025Reviews

The West Turned Upside-Down

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In 'How the World Made the West' Josephine Quinn, a progressive Cambridge don, argues that civilizations do not exist—and Western civilization is worst of all.

More Hysteria from Douglas Murray
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June 1, 2025June 12, 2025Reviews

More Hysteria from Douglas Murray

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'On Democracies and Death Cults' serves up neoconservative hysterics that are typical of its author. In Douglas Murray's narrow thinking, you either stand with Israel and democratic values or you belong to a death cult.

From the Finland Station
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June 1, 2025June 25, 2025Reviews

From the Finland Station

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Sean McMeekin's 'To Overthrow the World' deftly traces the entire history of communism as both idea and governing policy—a feat not seen since Edmund Wilson's 'To the Finland Station.'

Brideshead Revisited, The Age of Innocence, The Remains of the Day, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Gioacchino Lanza di Tomasi, ancien régime, Italian nationalism, Don Fabrizio Corbera, Sicily, Italian unification, Netflix, Novel, The Leopard (1958), Tom Shankland, Kim Rossi Stuart,
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May 1, 2025April 17, 2025Reviews

An Elusive Leopard

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Netflix's reinvention of Prince Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” turns old Sicily into a cruel hellscape and, thereby, loses the thing that made the original novel great: A nostalgia for the traditional Sicilian society that Italian nationalism crushed.

Azazel Jacobs, Anton Chekhov, Viktor Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul, His Three Daughters, Jay O. Sanders, Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne,
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April 1, 2025March 21, 2025Reviews

Signs of Life

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'His Three Daughters' explores the tension between three sisters, who have little in common aside from family, reunited by the pending death of their father.

Walt Disney Studios, Better Tomorrow, Truth, Justice, adamantium, Julius Onah, Giancarlo Esposito, Manchurian Candidate, LGBTQ+ people, DC Comics, Manchurian Candidate, anti-Trump connotations, Rose Garden, Anthony Mackie, Sam Wilson, Captain America, Brave New World, Harrison Ford,
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April 1, 2025March 20, 2025Reviews

Captain Anti-America

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In 'Captain America: Brave New World' anti-Trump conspiracy theory meets superhero mythology. The leftists finally came for Captain America!

U.S. homosexual population, Robert Bellah, Obergefell, wokeism, Bruce Abramson,
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March 1, 2025February 28, 2025Reviews

The Religion of Secular Doomsayers

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"American Spirit or Great Awokening?" carefully decodes the hidden religious elements of wokeism’s fascination with climate apocalypticism and trans identity. This little book, however, makes some significant missteps.

Christian nationalists, Trump voters, George Floyd riots, Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman, hatred, anti-American, White Rural Rage, anti-white,
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February 1, 2025February 3, 2025Reviews

The Last Acceptable Prejudice

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'White Rural Rage' alleges hatred, bigotry, and utter depravity of white, rural, Christians with no real evidence. Of course, there is not a forthcoming 'Black Urban Rage.'