Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth—and How to Fix It by Dambisa Moyo. Basic Books, 2018. Hardcover, 296 pages, $30. Reviewed by Gilbert NMO Morris Dambisa Moyo is exhaustless, insightful, even passionate concerning the evolving...
SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build by Jonathan Waldman. Simon & Schuster, 2020. Hardcover, 267 pages, $28. Reviewed by Faith Bottum If you’re looking for a great tale of entrepreneurial pluck and technological...
New York’s Original Penn Station: The Rise and Tragic Fall of an American Landmark by Paul M. Kaplan The History Press, 2019. Paperback, 176 pages, $22. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare The original Penn Station, which opened in 1910 and was torn down for the current...
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America By T. H. Breen. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jason Ross In the midst of a wave of populist revolutions upsetting global politics, Timothy...
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Back Bay Books, 2012. Paperback, 597 pages, $18. Reviewed by Eve Tushnet At a certain point you realize that David Foster Wallace is as much a horror writer as Stephen King, and the monsters under his bed are twins: absorption...
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam By Douglas Murray. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018. Paperback, 384 pages, $20. Reviewed by Henry George Over August and September of 2015 nearly 2 million people entered Europe. Germany added 1–2 percent of its...
The Consensus Reality
Jeffrey Folks on "The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex" by @JM_Butcher. @EncounterBooks