Books

I received Harvey Mansfield's Manliness [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300106645/thedailyeudem-20] on Friday. It's pretty good so far. It prompted me to go through my study and pull out ten manly books. The glared-out one is A'Kempis' On the Passion

The new American Conservative [http://www.amconmag.com/] arrived today. It looks like a good one (note: no links to the articles are available yet): A review of The Brothers Bulger [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446576514/thedailyeudem-20]. For me, it's a great example of how

"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library." From The Great Gatsby, Chapter III. For my drunken readers, I present this shot of the northwest corner of my study: Too bad the quality

The Washington Post ran a piece recently that speaks to me [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032200557.html?nav%3Dmost_emailed&sub=AR] : > Books, it turns out, inflame a particular kind of passion. They inform, they amuse, they provoke. They keep us company

The clever and brilliant (the two don't always go together) Charles Murray throws down a paradoxical challenge to America: use its flood of money to end the welfare state by giving money to Americans. His new book (In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State) comes

This must make the smarmy Brown one really proud [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/22/nmonk22.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/03/22/ixhome.html] : > A monk may have leapt to his death from a monastery after reading The Da Vinci Code,

The Christian Science Monitor has run an extended piece about Christians' efforts to derail The Da Vinci Code. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0322/p13s01-lire.html] It's mostly a re-hash of stuff I've already mentioned on this site. The best part is this simple observation:

The sixties have always fascinated me, and not just in a nauseous way. I've read Gitlin and Horowitz's histories, I've read plenty of Kerouac and an assortment of others. But I've never read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [http://www.cjr.org/

Interesting Christopher Hitchens piece in The Atlantic Monthly about Ian Fleming, who is described as "sadist, a narcissist, and an all-around repressed pervert." I've read a few Bond books, at the request of my wife, who's a big fan (no, she's not