Politics
New Criterion on Podhoretz
Trailblazer? Defender of Israel and America? Or Traitor? See what The New Criterion has to say in their review Jeffers’ book on Norman Podhoretz.
Is there any end to party polarization?
With November midterms coming up, it appears the political parties are more polarized than ever! Sean M. Theriault’s Party Polarization in Congress details our nation’s history of bipartisanship in this article by Gary Andres of The Weekly Standard.
Nazi sympathy in 1930s American Universities
It was just a few decades ago that elite education institutions in this country were placing quotas against Jewish students, encouraging students to visit Nazi Germany on exchange programs, refusing to hire Jewish refugee scholars fleeing Hitler, and punishing both faculty and students who protested the school’s friendly relations with the Nazi regime.
A Living Constitution
In Constitutional Illusions & Anchoring Truths, Hadley Arkes tries find a path between a conservative interpretation of the US Constitution and the living Constitution. The Wall Street Journal reviews it here.
Upcoming Author Events this Fall
It’s midterms! See Jennifer L. Lawless, author of It Takes A Candidate and It Still Takes A Candidate at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM, 7pm, August 26th. More on the event here. Competitive Authoritarianism by Lucan A. Way will be at The National Endowment for Democracy – Washington, D.C., Friday, Sept. 24th
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