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Ethan Porter

By Ethan Porter 4/15/08 4:33pm

Taking Measure of the Bust

BAD MONEY: RECKLESS FINANCE, FAILED POLITICS, AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM
By Kevin Phillips
Viking, 239 pages, $25.95

Remember the good old days? No, I don’t mean the sun-drenched, suburban 1950s. Nor do I refer to the go-go giddiness of the ’90s. I’m talking about last summer—before the days of “credit crunch” Read More

By Ethan Porter 9/18/07 4:14pm

Stuck in Reverse, Godfather of the Neocons Gets Nowhere

WORLD WAR IV: THE LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMOFASCISM
By Norman Podhoretz
Doubleday, 230 pages, $24.95

That Norman Podhoretz would open his new and deeply troubling World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism with a quaint Victorian salutation, “Dear Reader”—most famously used in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre­—is only fitting. Mr. Podhoretz’s book Read More