David Frum

11.21.24

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Do they still assign Tess of the D’Urbervilles in high school English? I was required to read it in the spring of 1978, and loathed it.

11.21.24

Mexico: Biography of Power

In honor of Mexican independence day, September 16, a short introductory reading list on Mexican history.

11.21.24

Middlemarch

What is a woman to do with herself? That question has inspired probably hundreds of thousands of novels over the past 200 years, but never with more triumphant result than in George Eliot’s Middlemarch.

11.21.24

The Mill on the Floss

I ended up listening to The Mill on the Floss twice through, and for that I blame the fact that I have been doing more running and less stair-climbing recently.

02.16.09

Mormon America

If the polls are to be believed, Mormons rank among America’s most disliked religious denominations.

11.21.24

The Mugwumps

To the extent that anybody remembers them at all, the Mugwumps of the 1870s and 1880s get predominantly negative press.

11.21.24

Mussolini's Italy

R.J.B. Bosworth’s Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 is an intermittently interesting but deeply, deeply flawed social history of — well just what it says, life under Mussolini’s dictatorship.

04.28.13

Mutual Contempt

The epic feud between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy is a story that reflects credit on nobody, except the author who has so minutely related it.

11.21.24

Nero

It should be made clear from the start that Edward Champlin’s Nero is not a biography in the usual sense of the term.

12.14.09

The New American Economy

At the beginning of Bruce Bartlett’s career, for sale the U.S. economy was gripped by failure and crisis: high inflation, sluggish economic growth.