British people Books & Reviews

The Company Man

Mark Falcoff | Dec 01, 1996
Richard Bissell, Jr.

Presented at Court

John O'Sullivan | Dec 01, 1996
This book is a record of disappointment in love.

Through the Garbage Can, Darkly, Review of David Williams's Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science

Eric Jones | Sep 01, 1996
This is a work of criticism ranging over the more fashionable social sciences and humanities, assessing and mostly rejecting them as unsuitable for elucidating the Japanese political system and berating their exponents for ignoring that system in

Road Hogs, Review of Joshua Muravchik's The Imperative of American Leadership

Adam Garfinkle | Jun 01, 1996
Two of the books reviewed here describe how Joshua Muravchik and the late Eric Nordlinger read the post-Soviet map and would have us travel upon it. Both recommend sharp turns at high speeds. The third contains the counsel of Peter Rodman, a man l

Reckless War-Making; Review of Sergei N. Goncharov et al.'s Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War

David Rees | Dec 01, 1995
Reckless War-Making; Review of Sergei N.

'If Men Were Angels. . . ' : Reflections on the World of Eric Hobsbawm

James Kurth | Jun 01, 1995
Historians have recently begun to see the twentieth century as lasting from 1914 to 1989 (the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe) or to 1991 (the end of the Soviet Union), what Eric Hobsbawm in his new book calls "the short twentieth century.

The Future of Equality

Francis Fukuyama | Dec 01, 1994
Thomas Sowell's Race and Culture provides ample documentation as to the importance of culture as a component of human capital, one that is critical in determining individual and national performance. In his usual feisty way, Sowell is eager to deb

Wyatt Usurped

David Brooks | Sep 01, 1994
It is hard now for any director to have as foursquare a vision of civilization as John Ford did. Many contemporary directors have tried to revive the Western but they tend to get whipsawed by conflicting cultural vectors.

One Who Made A Revolution, Review of Robert Skidelsky and John Maynard Keynes' The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937

Neil McInnes | Sep 01, 1994
Review of Robert Skidelsky and John Maynard Keynes' The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937(New York: Allen Lane, Penguin Press, 1994).

Servants, Masters, and the Art of Bantering

Richard Grenier | Mar 01, 1994
There is something indescribably wrong, we're compelled to feel, about a man completely enslaving his spirit to that of another man. The Remains of the Day, in both its literary and movie form, tells a highly didactic story. With all the respect d

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