Books

An 81-year-old woman returned an overdue book to a New Jersey library after discovering it among her grandfather’s old things, finding that the book, Home-Made Toys For Girls And Boys, was borrowed in March 1926. What do you think?…

When Dorothea von Ertmann, a friend and student of Beethoven’s, lost her only young child, Beethoven learned of her inconsolable grief. Instead of offering words of consolation, he sat at the piano and played for her, improvising for an…

They call themselves the New Right. They’re also known as the Online Right, and during Trump’s first term, the Alt-Right. Many of them are proud provocateurs with questionable pseudonyms – Bronze Age Pervert, Endlessbonerz, Raw Egg…

The good is up for grabs. American liberals had their shot — and failed. As Ross Douthat put it, recent years have provided “a case study in how a seemingly hegemonic worldview can pass very rapidly from consolidating power to squandering…

COLUMBUS, OH—Reeling as she took stock of the damage done in her debilitated state, area woman Brittany Marino told reporters Wednesday she had sworn off Ambien for good after she woke up and saw how many library books she had put on hold…

In her 21 years on Earth, Shari Franke has hardly known a life without a camera in her face. Her younger siblings, who became the center of one of the most publicized child abuse cases in the country last year, are the same. All six Franke…

Big Tech claims to have seen the light, so why is Amazon still banning Ryan Anderson’s book? The vibes have shifted, and Big Tech is shifting with them. Elon Musk took the lead (and the risks) in moving to the right, but other tech…

The first red flag with Nicholas Carr’s new book is the subtitle: “How technologies of connection tear us apart.” It’s beyond banal, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After all, his book The Shallows is still the definitive treatment…

“We are believers in the myth of World War II,” wrote history scholar Alec Ryrie in a recent piece for First Things. It is “our religion.” By this, Ryrie means that in the absence of a unifying faith in our increasingly post-Christian age,…

For many decades, the notion of a child-centered politics has traditionally been relegated to the social conservative wing of the Republican Party. And for much of that time, social conservatives were always the shorter leg of the wobbly…