Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay I first came in contact with the authors of this book in a TV interview with them, in which they start by defining the concept of “wokeness” as the condition one has if you have a certain […]

Probably like most of you, I have had an unusual amount of time for reading in this pandemic period, so here are comments on a few recent books I have read, a couple of them old favorites, and it’s not coincidental that there is quite a bit of overlap in the underlying theme, which is […]

As I have often done, I recently revisited C. S. Lewis’s classic of 1944, The Abolition of Man, and as usual was rewarded by gems of which I needed to be reminded and others that I missed before.  This small book is Lewis’s masterful critique of man’s being and purpose and in it, he confronts the […]

As many of you know, I have spent a good portion of my time over the past 20 years or so on public education reform, and recently I had the opportunity to assist and advise in a small way with the publication of a new book with fresh ideas about education reform, primarily in Texas, […]

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, by Christopher Caldwell Caldwell, a Senior Fellow with the Claremont Institute, has spent many years analyzing and reflecting on the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences, and this book is a survey of that work.  To understand the points he makes about where we […]

Since the publication of my book, The Texas Pilgrim: 20 Years of Reflection and Commentary, in which I included a number of book reviews of the 150 or so I have written, I have been asked by several readers to recommend my top selections over the years.  Given the current circumstances in which we find […]

Both of the books being reviewed this month were published a couple of years ago, but have been on my shelf as I covered other bases.  As it turns out, however, this was a good time to read and comment on them as we begin the long slog through this election year, as they in […]

I have been a follower of George Will’s work for about 40 years, although I haven’t read one of his books since Statecraft as Soulcraft, his first full length book, over 35 years ago.  I am pleased that I chose to read his latest, The Conservative Sensibility, a major addition to conservative thought that one reviewer, […]