December 01, 2009 ISSUE

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Articles

Party Favors 
John Carney
Where have you gone, Henry Regnery?

The Dangers of Literacy 
Albert Jay Nock
The illusion that everyone can be taught to read degrades civilization.

Kristol Reflections 
Daniel McCarthy
Irving Kristol wrote the book on neoconservatism.

The Best Books You Haven’t Read 
Fifteen literary and political thinkers offer their recommendations.

Ayn Shrugged 
Daniel Hannan
For all her gifts, the goddess of the market was not a great novelist.

Tracking Tocqueville 
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Bernard-Henri Lévy overtakes Tocqueville.

Lives Less Ordinary 
Sam Leith
The black arts of literary biography

Perpetual Feast   
Taki Theodoracopulos
Hemingway’s forever feast

Turning the Pixels 
Helen Rittelmeyer
1,500 books in my purse

The Lettered Reactionary 
John Rodden & John Rossi
The history of John Lukacs

Scholar Among Rakes 
R.J. Stove
Thomas Macaulay, the learned Whig

Arts & Letters

Founding Traitor 
Alan Pell Crawford
An Artist in Treason: The Extraordinary Double Life of General James Wilkinson by Andro Linklater

Postmodern Fogey   
Andrew McKie
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme by Tracy Daugherty

The Ice Pick Cometh 
Norman Stone
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service

Burning Rubber 
Septimus Waugh
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin

Columns

Caught in the Rye   

Shelf Life   
Eve Tushnet

Friendly Ghosts 
Bill Kauffman

Front Lines   
The Bible Gets Hannitized; China’s Printing Presses; Cheney Legacy Project

Syllabus   
Liberal Books Conservatives Should Read