4+ hour, 37+ min ago  (465+ words) Why does everyone love Barnes? Bowie seems initially vague: "I love Stephen King. Scares the shite out of me," he told Q magazine in 1999. "But I really like Julian Barnes as well, which is another world." That contrast is spot…...

4+ hour, 38+ min ago  (519+ words) It's easy to start a fight between David Bowie fans: Simply ask them to name his best album. Thanks to Bowie's rare combination of talent and industriousness, a case could easily be made for at least half a dozen of…...

4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (1368+ words) In this compact, highly readable book treating issues about which he has also written elsewhere, Carl Trueman examines how it is that, at least on his telling, our world has become one in which limits are no longer meaningful moral…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (163+ words) Nicholas Clairmont's review of Jacob Siegel's The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control ("Tyranny Through Technology," March 29, 2026) calls it "careful and specific" and "unimpeachably sourced." I am one of the book's caricatured villains and I want to…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (579+ words) Writing a novel after spending years writing nonfiction is no easy trick. Trust me, I know. My hard drive is littered with stories never shared. My next book, if I do finish it, will be another nonfiction tome. Completing a…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (145+ words) Big claims, surely. The outlines of the stories Siegel tells about the tools of information warfare being turned inward, using his journalistic background as well as his experience as a U.S. soldier, are enough to make someone sound like a crackpot....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (673+ words) To Observant Jews, New York Times Cooking Offers a Pre-Passover Insult'freebeacon.com The New York Times food section is celebrating the Passover holiday by recommending a recipe for "matzo" that the newspaper itself acknowledges is not kosher for Passover. At…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (124+ words) Every society has an aristocracy, even those that deny or disparage the very idea, such as our own. The word derives from a Greek term roughly meaning "rule of the best" which, it goes without saying, means different things to…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (193+ words) There is, of course, another reason: Most of the Hollywood Communists and Hollywood members of the party were Jewish! It was the same in New York City, where the two leading cultural apparatchiks, V.J. Jerome and screenwriter John Howard Lawson, flew…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1083+ words) Apart from his wife and lifelong coauthor Anne Ehrlich (with whom he published nearly a dozen books or pamphlets and many hundreds of articles), perhaps no other voice or personality is so closely associated with the postwar moral panic over…...