Something New under the Sun: A Hemingway Biography That’s Original
A review of Ernest Hemingway: A New Life, a new biography by James M. Hutchisson.
Batman’s Dark Side
In Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, Batman reverted to his dark origins.
Leaving the Left
In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer examines six men whose common denominator was that, when already noted public figures, they publicly moved from left to right.
Roger Scruton and the New Left
In Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands, Roger Scruton examines the New Left intellectuals’ use of language to take over academia.
Hitchens: Often Wrong, Always Forthright
Christopher Hitchens’s intellect often led him, though by different paths, to positions a conservative might take.
How Did the Cold War End?
A new book by historian Robert Service examines the end of the Cold War.
The Self-Contradictions of Gore Vidal
With Gore Vidal, what you saw was seldom what you got.
Reagan: Too Big to Judge?
In his novel Finale, Thomas Mallon depicts a Ronald Reagan who slips in and out of Alzheimer’s-induced dementia, but who is strong and firm with Mikhail Gorbachev.
Joan Didion, Perpetual Outsider
Was Joan Didion a conservative who turned left? Or, as she claimed, someone whose views hadn’t changed while the political landscape changed around her.
Anti-Communist Films of the ’50s
It is widely believed on the left that the anti-Communist films of the 1950s were hysterical and unprofitable. This characterization originated with blacklisted Hollywood Communists.