Why We Play: Football Coaches and The Making of Boys Into Men
I sing of shoulder pads and the player. Even more so the football coach. This position is controversial these days. After all, football is, in George Will’s…
I sing of shoulder pads and the player. Even more so the football coach. This position is controversial these days. After all, football is, in George Will’s…
The other night I had a dream where some medical expert was examining me for breast cancer. He seemed properly qualified to do this and the examination…
If the roof falls in or the ship is taking water, I’m the teammate you’ll want to have around. I’ll do anything that seems to need doing…
Un Enterrement et quatre saisons (A Funeral and Four Seasons). Nathalie Prince. Flammarion, 2021 I started reading Nathalie Prince’s book, Un Enterrement et quatre saisons (A…
Love and Communication. Paddy Scannell. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2021. Paddy Scannell’s new thought-provoking book is a sort of intellectual and scholarly testament. He even suggests…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared that, “the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate.”[1] The central claim of this book is that it is not only…
Why Moralize upon It? Democratic Education through American Literature and Film. Brian Danoff (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020). “Why moralize upon it?” asked Herman Melville’s character Amasa Delano…
Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors. Mark T. Mitchell. Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2020. What in hell is going on in…
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
Politics, Literature, and Film in Conversation. Matthew Dinan, Paul E. Kirkland, Denise Schaeffer, and Natalie Fuehrer Taylor. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Dialogue, even if contrived and…
Once Upon a time of Transition: Fourteen Exercises in Political Thought. Martin Palouš. Washington-London: Academica Press, 2021. Martin Palouš’s Once Upon a Time of Transition: Fourteen…
I’d intended to devote this column to leisurely reflections on what I sometimes term “the Jewish assignment” in history. Reflections prompted by a biography I’m now reading,…
We were having dinner at the Mission Inn, which is one of the attractions of Riverside, the town in California where we stayed during the week of…
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. Joel Kotkin. New York: Encounter, 2020. “History never repeats itself. Man always does.” In…
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, wrote The Visit[1] (Der Besuch der alten Dame) in 1956. Dürrenmatt is a twentieth century Swiss playwright (1921-1990) who gets mentioned alongside Beckett, Camus, Sartre,…