Writing on The New Republic‘s Plank blog, Zvika Krieger alerts us to the fact that Bush 41 "Drug Czar" and so-called "Bookie of Virtue" William Bennett and former Bush 43 special assistant David Kuo are launching a conservative answer to Slate. (This comes via Gawker.)
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A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Thomas Bender. Hill and Wang, 368 pages, $26.
It takes a man with a certain singular talent to write a history of America empty of originality and devoid of insight. William J. Bennett is that man, and America: The Last Best Hope should be Read More
A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History, by Thomas Bender. Hill and Wang, 368 pages, $26.
It takes a man with a certain singular talent to write a history of America empty of originality and devoid of insight. William J. Bennett is that man, and America: The Last Best Hope should be enough Read More
The nub of every con game is that the mark wants something for nothing. If you hold this hapless immigrant’s wallet-bulging with a wad of bills-while he fetches his duffel bag from the YMCA, then he will reward you handsomely. When, after he fails to reclaim his wallet, you inspect his bills and find that Read More
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues , by André Comte-Sponville. Metropolitan Books, 352 pages, $27.50.
Ever had to fight the urge to pick up William J. Bennett’s The Book of Virtues ? Have you considered, even for a microsecond, buying his new book, The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family Read More
Early this spring, scientists announced that 17th-century
clay pipes excavated in Stratford-upon-Avon showed traces of cannabis. The
story cut several ways. If the Bard took a pinch of hemp now and then, drug
warriors would be forced to admit that it didn’t diminish his productivity. What
more could Shakespeare have done: Iago:
The Prison Break Read More
Enough jokes about Larry Flynt’s Late-Night Bust. After launching a flutter of rumors around the world, with journalists trying to figure out whether the time announced for his press conference was Eastern or Pacific standard time, the only meat that America’s second-best-known pornographer could wave before a room of reporters the night of Jan. 11 Read More
