Tags: Book Reviews

The mistaken worry that money and morality are at odds

Robert Caro’s epic account of LBJ’s vice presidency

A fresh look at the political evolution of a great American

The outlaws of Marion County, Kentucky, defy one Prohibition after another.

Does legalizing gay marriage go far enough?

A new book argues that inclusive institutions offer the best path to prosperity.

A tolerant new tell-all from Tinseltown’s sexual fixer

A new biography shows how Barack Obama the youthful pothead became Barack Obama the presidential drug warrior.

The Other America, which helped create modern welfare, turns 50.

Reliving the 1990s in the 2012 GOP race

Charles Murray offers a better way to think and talk about class.

A hagiography of the Obama administration’s most powerful wonks reveals more than it intends.

What’s more revolutionary in the Middle East: Facebook or porn?

The founder of Apple may have been a narcissistic jerk, but his humanity was revealed by the liberating objects he made.

The retired justice’s new memoir reveals an uneasy relationship with the Bill of Rights.

Correcting the cartoonish vilification of a libertarian Supreme Court decision

Rand Paul reshapes the national debate.

Economist Walter E. Williams reflects on his long career battling Jim Crow, big government, and liberal orthodoxy.

A new edition of H.L. Mencken’s Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best.