Writings by Topic: Book Reviews

Title Date
Bernie Sanders Book April 19, 2023
Scalia Biography March 26, 2023
Preet Bharara's New Book Does America an Injustice February 8, 2022
Twilight of Democracy (1 comment) August 6, 2020
The Fifth Risk By Michael Lewis (6 comments) October 4, 2018
Rethinking Nationalism September 14, 2018
Allison at Treasury? November 28, 2016
JFK and the Reagan Revolution September 6, 2016
Yuval Levin Fractured Republic May 31, 2016
Review: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide To Human Nature and Happiness
by Russ Roberts
October 9, 2014
Review: Thinking Things Over: Vermont Royster's Legacy at the Wall Street Journal (1 comment)
by Chris Roush
May 6, 2014
Piketty's Diminishing Capital (1 comment) April 24, 2014
Review: The Road to Global Prosperity
by Michael Mandelbaum
March 25, 2014
Review: The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz
March 14, 2014
JFK, Conservative (2 comments) October 14, 2013
Review: The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
by Duff McDonald
September 27, 2013
Nobel Laureate Economist Phelps on Capitalism and Corporatism (1 comment) August 20, 2013
The Severan Debasement May 28, 2013
Review: Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What American Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas
by Erica Grieder
May 3, 2013
Conscious Capitalism January 29, 2013
Nobel Peace Prize for Europe (3 comments) October 12, 2012
Review: The Financial Crisis And The Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is The World Economy's Only Hope (2 comments)
by John A. Allison
October 5, 2012
Review: Better Capitalism: Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy (2 comments)
by Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
September 25, 2012
Book Recommendation June 29, 2012
Tyrrell, Jonah Goldberg, Arthur Brooks Books Reviewed June 13, 2012
Bananas and Bain Capital May 29, 2012
Review: No They Can't: Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed (2 comments)
by John Stossel
April 9, 2012
Free Market Fairness March 30, 2012
Review: That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind In The World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (3 comments)
by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
September 9, 2011
Review: Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (3 comments)
by Tim Groseclose
July 20, 2011
Review: The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America (1 comment)
by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
July 3, 2011
Review: Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Walmart's Green Revolution (1 comment)
by Edward Humes
May 10, 2011
Review: Mr. Speaker!: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed The Man Who Broke the Filibuster
by James Grant
May 8, 2011
Review: Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide (2 comments)
by Roddy Boyd
April 21, 2011
Review: Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America
by Walter Olson
March 1, 2011
Review: Jews and Money: The Story of a Stereotype (1 comment)
by Abraham H. Foxman
November 15, 2010
Review: Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington (1 comment)
by Rick Perry
November 11, 2010
Bush's Book on the Financial Crisis (1 comment) November 9, 2010
Review: You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government
by Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
October 24, 2010
The Human Factor (1 comment) October 19, 2010
Review: Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders (1 comment)
by Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy
September 14, 2010
Necessary Secrets August 21, 2010
Further on Confidence Game August 9, 2010
Review: Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street's Bluff (2 comments)
by Christine S. Richard
August 9, 2010
Review: Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea (2 comments)
by C. Bradley Thompson With Yaron Brook
June 7, 2010
Read It Here First (1 comment) May 23, 2010
Read It Here First May 19, 2010
Review: Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent
May 11, 2010
Review: The 10 Laws of Enduring Success
by Maria Bartiromo With Catherine Whitney
April 26, 2010
Review: After The Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery
by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
April 8, 2010
Review: The Road From Ruin: How To Revive Capitalism and Put America Back On Top
by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green
March 23, 2010
Read It Here First March 19, 2010
Rove and the Rainbow Fish (2 comments) March 17, 2010
Read It Here First March 12, 2010
Review: Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight
by Karl Rove
March 11, 2010
Review: Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality, and an Uncertain World (1 comment)
by Stephen Green
March 4, 2010
Review: Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work (1 comment)
by Roger M. Battistella
February 28, 2010
Confronting the 'Antinatalists' February 26, 2010
The WSJ and the NYT on Whitewater, Lewinsky (1 comment) February 18, 2010
Read It Here First February 15, 2010
International Impact February 12, 2010
What Bill Gates and I Have in Common February 6, 2010
More on Paulson's On the Brink February 5, 2010
Review: On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
by Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
February 4, 2010
The Financial Times on 'Parasitical' Paulson (2 comments) February 3, 2010
Review: Capitalism and the Jews (3 comments)
by Jerry Z. Muller
February 1, 2010
Read It Here First January 22, 2010
Bill Gates's New Web Site January 21, 2010
New York Times on Prison Spending (1 comment) January 4, 2010
Review: Intellectuals and Society (1 comment)
by Thomas Sowell
January 4, 2010
Review: Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do
by Michael J. Sandel
December 30, 2009
Wisdom of Crowds, Books on Capitalism December 24, 2009
Read It Here First December 22, 2009
Review: From Poverty To Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities, and the Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity
by Arnold Kling and Nick Schulz
December 7, 2009
Morgenson, Podhoretz, and Encyclopedias December 2, 2009
Review: Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and How They Will Save the American Worker) (1 comment)
by Richard Herman and Robert Smith
November 25, 2009
Read It Here First November 25, 2009
Review: The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism
by George Melloan
November 17, 2009
Review: Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power (2 comments)
by Gene Dattel
November 12, 2009
Review: The Capitalist's Bible: The Essential Guide to Free Markets and Why They Matter to You
by Gretchen Morgenson, Editor
November 10, 2009
Review: End The Fed
by Ron Paul
September 16, 2009
Review: The Israel Test
by George Gilder
July 24, 2009
Review: Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide Into Socialism (1 comment)
by Jim DeMint
June 25, 2009
Review: The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way From a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond
by Peter G. Peterson
June 3, 2009