Books

When Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) needed a Bahamas compound, he hired Alfia White and Ian Rosenfield. Neither had ever designed an office building, but they were given a budget of $250-300 million and the direction: “You’re the architects. I…

The American Library Association threw its support behind two so-called “banned books” tours organized by Penguin Random House and The New Republic in response to efforts by parents and red states to remove inappropriate books from…

Most books by politicians are ghostwritten, poll-tested, reputation-whitewashing, score-settling mental baby food. Sen. Rand Paul’s book out today, Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up, instead reads like a mash-up of the true-crime and spy…

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg’s potential cage match was the talk of the summer, and it was easy to dismiss it as idle threats made by two unathletic billionaires. After reading “Elon Musk,” the new biography by Walter Isaacson, I’m not so…

The late conservative cultural critic Roger Scruton once remarked, “Not everything Marx said was wrong.” Such a statement from Sir Roger, a man who dedicated his life to combatting Marxism — both in its totalitarian Soviet form and in its…

Last week, a middle school teacher in Texas was fired for assigning “the graphic adaptation” of Anne Frank’s diary. Judging from most headlines, this seems to be an instance of intolerant and anti-intellectual parents targeting a teacher…

Whatever happened to the literal children of the figurative father of our nation? For all of George Washington’s renown, his descendants have become all but forgotten. Our first president had no biological children, but he and Martha raised…

On Christmas Eve in 2019, The Aspen Times fired its most popular columnist. Glenn Beaton had been writing his column for seven years. Called “The Aspen Beat,” it routinely took to task — most often in a humorous way — the woke pieties of…

Parents across the country are expressing serious concern about what their children are being exposed to in schools and libraries. Despite being slandered as “domestic terrorists,” racists, and “extremists,” parents are not backing down.…

Warning: This piece includes sexually explicit content. I wasn’t surprised when I got a call from the local newspaper telling me it wouldn’t run my editorial featuring graphic sex excerpts from a controversial teen book. The parts I…