Books
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Interventionism as Isolationism
Robert Kaplan calls U.S. foreign policy provincial, narrow, shallow, and naïve.
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John le Carré’s Knights of the Spy Novel
His Cold War classic Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy turns fifty this month.
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Neoconservatism and Capitalism
Irving Kristol was a renegade liberal in 1978—and wrong about markets.
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Richard Nixon’s California Cool
His West Coast soul made the 37th president who he was in triumph and tragedy.
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What Makes America Exceptional?
In his new book, Jack Ross forgets that a country is more than a Creed.
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The True Joseph de Maistre
Often caricatured as reactionary, his writing is actually strikingly modern.
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A Mirthful Memoir of the Right
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s American Spectator reflects its founder’s joie de vivre.
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Escaping the Parent Trap of Public School Funding
The government has divorced affordability and quality, but there’s a plan to unite them again.
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Dictatorships and Double Standards Revisited
Jeane Kirkpatrick shaped Reagan’s foreign policy but criticized his “New Right.”
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Homer and Political Philosophy
He saw how the desire for home competes with the desire for knowledge.
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