Erica Greider supplies a fresh view of the nation's second most populous sate in "Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas." An editor at Texas Monthly, the author explains the state's much-heralded record of economic growth and does her best to strip away some of . . .
TO THOSE younger than 35, communism must seem like some ridiculous hoax. How could so many Western intellectuals have defended an ideology -- and defended it into the late 1980s -- that had never produced anything but . . .
Whether in the streets of major European cities, "occupied" Wall Street or al Qaeda hide-outs, the key element of the "totalitarian temptation," of which we have been warned by . . .
. . . today it must be done. So let's perform our usual Saturday ablutions -- giving to charity, contributing to Romney -- then hear a long-overdue disquisition by Unca D, his own self, on one of America's most-important cultural treasures: . . .
. . . has endorsed Unca D's favorite book about Western Civilization, From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun, about which the Unc has written here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
What great American thinker has now jumped aboard the Barzun bandwagon? None other than . . .
