One of my favorite essays of all time comes from old-school conservative writer Whitaker Chambers. In the late 1950s he reviewed Ayn Rand’s thousand-page
Tag: Political books
Kingsolver’s new novel, Flight Behavior , delivers a powerful sermon on climate change
I’ve been listening to Barbara Kingsolver read her new novel, Flight Behavior, on my car CD player, and I have to wonder what the
Using back channels: LBJ and Barack Obama
Jeff Greenfield’s historical novel, Then Everything Changed, is a collection of actual facts and plausible alternatives to facts. Without divulging too much about the
“An Unlikely Candidate” reflects on an unusual campaign
During the 2010 election cycle, Arthur Lieber ran for Congress in Missouri’s 2nd Congressional district. By percentages, Lieber lost badly to the heavily favored
Can St. Louis get its groove back?
2011 is the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, an era in which St. Louis had grandiose ideas for itself. A
Morris Berman: A Question of Values
A Question of Values is Morris Berman’s seventh book of cultural history and social criticism and his first book of essays, which were written
The unofficial Congressional book club
It’s reassuring to know that presidents and congressional representatives–or, perhaps, their staff–sometimes read something other than staff-prepared briefing books and lobbyist-generated manifestos. Well, at