Category: Book Reviews

11 Books Millennials Should Read for Career Advice

Posted on by Counter Cultured

by Joshua de Gastyne Biographies 1) Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (2015) Hot off the press and selling like hot-cakes, this new bio profiles the journey of an ambitious young man from South Africa who has already founded billion-dollar companies in three radically different industries: cars, rockets, and […]

 

Recommended Reading: Guardian of the Republic

Posted on by Dave Blount

Allen West’s first book Guardian of the Republic is a quick, enjoyable read that deserves to go straight to the top of every patriot’s reading list. Many books by political figures are tedious, self-aggrandizing yawnathons. Not this one. West gives us enough background to understand where he is coming from, then moves on to ideas […]

 

‘Color Purple’ Author’s New Virulently Anti-Semitic Book Draws Criticism

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Alice Walker is most well known for authoring The Color Purple, a book on the African American experience that in 1985 became an award-winning film staring Oprah Winfrey among others. But Walker is also well known as a major anti-Semite and in her new book, The Cushion in the Road, Walker “sinks to new lows” […]

 

Video Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Since my blog was one of many inspired by Instapundit.com in the immediate wake of 9/11, and since it’s celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, I had wanted to do a video interview with Glenn Reynolds to discuss the history and state of the Blogosphere. Given that he has a new “Broadside” (much longer than […]

 

Verdict for America: Solutions for our Most Pressing Problems

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Bill Ponath, an attorney and long-time pro tem judge, has written the definitive up-to-date and eye-opening book on the most critical issues facing the U.S. Written so anyone will understand, but not so basic as to bore the experienced politico, he analyzes eight issues thoroughly and recommends insightful common sense solutions. At one point the […]

 

Q&A Friday #108: What 5 Books Should Be Required Reading For All High School Seniors?

Posted on by John Hawkins

Question: If you were tasked with creating a list of 5 books that would be required reading for all HS seniors in your school district, which books would you include and why? — Good_Ol_Boy Answer: This is a fun question. Difficult, too, but still fun. I’m going to assume that I have carte blanche here […]

 

Short Video Book Review: Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson

Posted on by Lee Doren

People have wanted me to talk about this book for quite a while. I read it a few years ago, but since I’m always pushing Thomas Sowell’s books, here is another that I’d highly recommend. Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is the perfect book to give to family and friends.

 

10 Reasons Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics Should Have Been Called Ironic Clueless Narcissist

Posted on by Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal … by Jenn Q. Public & Lori Ziganto The long awaited train wreck known as Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics was released August 31, 2010. She totally wrote it. By. Herself. And we read it – the entire 194, long, painful pages. We are givers like that, even though […]

 

Book Review: The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and The Closing of the American Mind

Posted on by Lee Doren

This is a book review of Greg Gutfeld’s, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. I thought the Closing of the American Mind was boring, and no that doesn’t make you intellectually inferior if you thought the same thing. Greg Gutfeld’s book, however, made the exact same point […]

 

Publisher’s Warning Label: That Constitution and Declaration is No Longer Valid Thinking

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A Virginia-based publisher has decided that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other founding books are likely offensive and they want their readers to understand that these old documents are no longer valid ways of thinking. And so the publisher, Wilder Publications, has put a warning label on its reprints of America’s founding documents […]

 

Podcast: The Black Genocide & Book Reviews With Bise

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Catherine Davis of Georgia Right to Life talks the “black genocide” and the controversial billboard campaign. In the second half, Jimmie Bise of SundriesShack.com talks Seth Godin’s book Linchpin and Gary Vanderchuck’s book Crush it. Which book should you buy? Listen and find out.

 

New Video: ‘Ayn Rand: Goddess Of The Market’

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Jennifer Burns, the author of the best-selling late 2009 book on Ayn Rand’s remarkably contentious history with the American right stopped by the vast Silicon Graffiti production facilities last week to discuss her book and the research that went into it.

 

The Intellectuals What Ain’t

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There is no better example of how low intellectuals have fallen than the case of Bernard-Henri Lévy, intellectual, provocateur, member of the well-regarded French nouveaux philosophes and, it seems, all around gullible fool. Bernard-Henri Lévy, better known to those in the know as BHL, has become a laughing stock of modern inteleckshoouls everywhere with the […]