03.25.13 No, the 2nd Amendment Does Not Authorize Armed Sedition This weekend I posted a book club entry about Adam Winkler’s important history of US gun law, Gunfight.
04.07.13 Time Regained If Time Regained were a free-standing novel, it would on its own qualify as a great work of art.
04.16.13 Strom Thurmond's America “How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?"
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.
05.05.13 The Souls of Black Folk To read W.E.B. DuBois’ The Souls of Black Folk in near proximity to Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery is a disorienting experience.
05.20.13 The Warmth of Other Suns The achievement of Isabel Wilkerson’s amazing The Warmth of Other Suns is to transmute sociology into memoir.
05.27.13 Murray Bernard Frum, 1931-2013 My late mother was only 19 when my father asked her to marry him, young even by the standards of the 1950s.
06.01.13 Margaret Thatcher, Voice of the Future Charles Moore is a master of deadpan. His admiration for Margaret Thatcher does not inhibit his awareness of the comic side of her personality.