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A Wolf Eat Wolf World

Religious beheadings are back in fashion, and not just in the Middle East. If you stroll down to the Winter Garden Theater on 51st and Broadway in New York, you can see six of them in one evening at...

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Royals and Regalia

On one cold day in New Jersey, I met a king. His Royal Majesty Benjamin Ikenchuku Keaboreku I, the Dein of Nigeria’s Agbor Kingdom, had come to see Royals and Regalia, a new exhibit at the Newark...

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Blues Upside Your Head

Muddy Waters: The Complete Aristocrat and Chess Singles As & Bs, 1947–62Acrobat (4CD set), $20.99 Howlin’ Wolf: The Complete RPM & Chess Singles As & Bs, 1951–62Acrobat (3CD set), $17.99...

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The Centralization Paradox

On this past January 12, Martha Derthick passed away at the age of 81. Obituaries duly appeared in the American elite media: Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and so on. Save for...

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Paper Machinations

Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Usby Kabir SehgalGrand Central Publishing, 336 pp., $28 On June 22, 1775, the self-declared Continental Congress issued $2 million in bills...

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Character Acting

The Road to Characterby David BrooksRandom House, 317 pp., $28 The contemplation of virtue is never a bad thing, and many of us don’t do it as often as we ought. It was once the case that moral essays...

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Ain’t It Grand?

What Good Is Grand Strategy?: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bushby Hal BrandsCornell University Press, 288 pp., $29.95 Back in late fall of 2004, when I...

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A Conversation with Mindy Miralia

The Hero in Heroin: A Mother and Son’s Journey on Both Sides of the Veilby Mindy MiraliaBalboa Press, 286 pp., $35.95 TAI: With me now is Mindy Miralia, author of a new book called The Hero in Heroin:...

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Sins of the Father

The Spy’s SonBryan DensonAtlantic, May 2015, 368 pp., $26 The Billion Dollar SpyDavid E. HoffmanDoubleday, July 2015, 336 pp., $28.95 Spying is the art of betrayal. If we accept it as the second oldest...

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Battle of the Asian Giants

Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile FrontierBy Bertil LintnerYale University Press, 376 pp., $35.00,  The enemy of the enemy is my friend…at least until a better...

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One Nation, Under the Influence

“Spirited Republic: Alcohol in American History,” on exhibit at the National Archives through January 10, is a lot like a 2 a.m. barroom yarn: rambling, studded with odd and fascinating moments, but...

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The Garbage Man Who Would Be King

The King of Kowloon: The Art of Tsang Tsou-choi David Spalding, editor Damiani, 225 pp., $50 In 1956, a garbage man living in the Kowloon neighborhood of Hong Kong, having reached the Dantean age of...

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The Fragile Eggs of Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimageby Haruki MurakamiKnopf, 2014, 400 pp., $25.95 I grew interested in the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami in the way young people grow interested in...

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Leaving Iraq

Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacyby Christopher R. HillSimon & Schuster, 2015, 448 pp., $30  The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma...

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The Suck, in So Many Words

Breakfast with the Dirt Cultby Samuel FinlayRed Dirt Syndicate, 2012, 318 pp., $11.99 Near the end of his Gulf War memoir, Jarhead, Anthony Swofford notes that “Every war is the same.” A literary...

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Alfred Chandler’s Second Industrial Revolution

 During the annual conference of the European Business History Association in Uppsala a few years ago, I chaired a session featuring some of the best known business historians on the subject of new...

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The Politics of a Panic

We Believe the Childrenby Richard BeckPublicAffairs, 2015, 352 pp., $26.99 In August of 1983, Judy Johnson, a single mother in Manhattan Beach, a wealthy Los Angeles suburb, called the police to...

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Should America Power Down?

Superpower: Three Choices for America’s Role in the Worldby Ian BremmerPortfolio, 2015, 240 pp., $27.95 In 1912, many people predicted that the United States would be one of the most powerful states in...

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The Hotel Patriot

The Hotel Years by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael HofmannNew Directions, 2015, 192 pp., $14.95 “Why do you people always go wandering around in the world?” So asks a Russian peasant of Mendel...

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What Good Is Liberal Education?

In Defense of a Liberal EducationFareed ZakariaW.W. Norton & Company, 2015, 208 pp., $23.95 About a quarter century ago, during an earlier epoch of the American culture wars, the academy echoed...

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