Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Perish the Thought Who killed the spirit of inquiry in Islam? David Aikman April 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 29 The Closing of the Muslim Mind How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly ISI, 244 pp., $26.95 What happened to Islamic culture? Why did a […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Objection Sustained The trouble with lawyers begins in the law schools. George Leef March 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 27 Schools for Misrule Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America by Walter Olson Encounter, 296 pp., $25.95 Following Judge Roger Vinson’s decision that Obamacare exceeded the powers granted to Congress
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April 02, 2011 Simon & Schuster’s Revenge By Douglas Hackleman In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon & Schuster — producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations
March 10, 2011 Three Cheers for Jack Cashill By Herbert E. Meyer Would you believe me if I told you that while in Milan last weekend, I’d been to La Scala for the world premiere of a new opera by George W. Bush? And would you ever again take me seriously if I published a
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FEBRUARY 8, 2011 In an interview, the former secretary of defense explains how Washington feuds harmed Iraq policy, and why the surge was less vital than you think. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL ‘I’d read other folks’ books about things I’d been involved in . . . and I’d think, ‘My goodness, that’s not my perspective,’”
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THE NEXT DECADE by George Friedman Published: January 2011 Synopsis The author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Next 100 Years now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent events and challenges that will test America and the world, specifically addressing the skills that will be required
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BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times January 3, 2011 FED UP! OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON By Rick Perry Little, Brown and Company, $21.99, 220 pages Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in state history, is a constitutional scholar, a defender of free enterprise, a
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By Amity Shales From the Roaring Twenties to the bleating nineteen thirties the American economy entered like a lion and left like a lamb–the Great Depression was at hand. In addition to the infamous market crashes, unemployment rose to almost a quarter of the total population, international trade slowed, deflation abounded, banks failed at an
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BOOK REVIEW: By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times December 10, 2010 WHEN OIL PEAKED By Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang, $24, 143 pages In 2001, building on the geologist M. King Hubbert’s prediction that U.S. oil production would peak between 1965 and 1970, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, emeritus professor of geology at Princeton
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