Tag: "Books"
If You Can’t Beat Them, Stick Them in Their Own Literary Ghetto
What is it about progressives that the very notion of competition should turn their bowels to water? It’s as if the phrase “the marketplace of ideas” is the intellectual equivalent of a rotten fish stuffed with limburger and wrapped in the pelt of a road-killed skunk. In a Nov. 9 entry on The Huffington Post [...]
Must Watch TV: Driscoll and Hayward on Reagan’s Rise
So there Ed was, just knocking around his palatial Silicon Graffiti studios, no doubt brainstorming his next miniature masterpiece, when renowned author Steven Hayward dropped by. Well, when you have a television studio and a best-selling biographer of one of the greatest Presidents in history, what can you do but tape a pretty darned good [...]
A Book You Need to Read if You’re Interested in Climate Change
Here’s an interesting interview with Australian geologist Ian Plimer whose new book Heaven and Earth takes on the Cult of Global Warming and with hard facts and without fear. This is what Plimer about why his work gives him the authority to speak about global warming: ‘I’m a natural scientist. I’m out there every day, [...]
Biographies You’ll Want to Own
If you’re looking for good summer reading material, you could do worse than shopping your way through these biographies recommended by Stacy McCain. I like biographies, though I really couldn’t tell you exactly why. There is something very enjoyable about reading about how someone who achieved a certain amount of fame (or infamy) learned their [...]
Hey! You Got Your Zombie In My Jane Austen!
Finally, an author has found a way to get me (and every other red-blooded male) to read Jane Austen! What’s the secret? Zombies. IT is a truth commercially acknowledged that Jane Austen’s high-spirited heroines can be recast as Hollywood brats or Bollywood sirens, wittily navigating the eternal perils of class, romance and unworthy men. Few [...]
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