David Frum

05.31.25

Brother Tariq

Encounter Books has rendered a great public service by translating and publishing in English Caroline Fourest’s important book on Tariq Ramadan, Brother Tariq.

05.31.25

Adam Bede

My review of George Eliot’s Scenes of Clerical Life triggered a lively discussion over in the Corner. So I am excited to see what might ensue from another posting on Eliot, this time on her first full length novel, Adam Bede.

05.31.25

Scenes of Clerical Life

One of my more frequent email correspondents cites an assigned reading of George Eliot’s Middlemarch as one of the great traumas of his college years.

05.31.25

The Last Mughal

In The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple evokes a lost world: old Delhi before the Indian Mutiny and the ensuing destruction of much of the venerable capital of the Mughals.

05.31.25

Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day

I picked up Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day entirely by accident. I was in New York and needed a copy of my wife’s Presidential Instant Message book to give to a television producer.

05.31.25

Wrong on Race

I read Bruce Bartlett’s Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past in typescript some months ago. I was tempted to blog about it then, but out of authorial comity decided to wait until the published version was available for everyone to read.

05.31.25

Reveille in Washington

Margaret Leech’s Reveille in Washington is more than a classic work of history: it is a piece of history in its own right.

05.31.25

The Roman Triumph

Fashion sways everything, the writing of history very much included.

05.31.25

Leave Us Alone

Here are two important books that stake out important positions in the looming debate over the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement.

05.31.25

Grand New Party

Here are two important books that stake out important positions in the looming debate over the future of the Republican party and the conservative movement.