Books

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…

Glenn Beck’s new book Propaganda Wars: How the Global Elite Control What You See, Think, and Feel is a prescient warning to all freedom-loving Americans about the threat posed by fake news, strategic disinformation, and mainstream media…

In 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron made the dubious observation that educated women don’t choose to have many kids. “I always say: ‘Present me the woman who decided, being perfectly educated, to have seven, eight, or nine children,’”…

Christmas, in the eyes of a child, is a grand affair. Children get to eat seemingly unlimited sweets, watch movies, and — most importantly to many of them — open presents. It’s easy to feel pressure to provide oodles of pretty packages with…

“Complete national unification,” Chinese Premier Xi Jinping proclaimed at the 19th Party Congress in 2017, “is an inevitable requirement for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” The Chinese Communist Party is fond of…