The Case for Drinking
“We’ve been looking at alcohol consumption through this very distorted lens,” says Edward Slingerland, author of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization. “We’ve only been …
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Review: Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
Few people are more qualified to write about wrongful convictions in the U.S. than M. Chris Fabricant, the director of strategic litigation for the Innocence Project. His group has freed …
Labor Econ Versus the World
You may know George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan from such contrarian classics as The Case Against Education, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids, and the polemical …
Artist Ai Weiwei Warns of Chinese and American Authoritarianism
On the morning of April 3, 2011, the renowned artist Ai Weiwei was picked up by Chinese police at an airport in Beijing. Later that day, he found himself in …
‘A Gentleman’s Guide’ To Fighting For Masculinity In A Culture Of Toxic Feminism
S.K. Baskerville’s ‘A Gentleman’s Guide To Manners, Sex, and Ruling the World,’ nobly addresses the pitfalls of being manly in a world driven by misandry. The FederalistThe Federalist is an …
The Spy Who Got Away With Stealing America’s Nuclear Secrets
In ‘Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away,’ former Wall Street Journal reporter Ann Hagedorn provides a captivating account George Koval, who was born in Iowa and …
Best-Selling Author Alice Sebold Apologizes to Innocent Man Who Served 16 Years for Her Rape
On Wednesday, The Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold apologized to the innocent man who ended up imprisoned for 16 years for her rape 40 years ago. Her publisher has also …
Book Reveals Gen Milley Secretly Sabotaged Trump, Called China, Sparking Talk Of Treason
Book Reveals Gen Milley Secretly Sabotaged Trump, Called China, Sparking Talk Of Treason Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley – who just facilitated the transfer of billions of dollars of US …
The New Yale Book of Quotations Is Published
The New Yale Book of Quotations has just been published by Yale University Press. This volume is a greatly enhanced edition of the 2006 book that was named by the …
Fred Shapiro Guest-Blogging on The New Yale Book of Quotations
I’m delighted to report that Fred Shapiro, Associate Director for Collections and Special Projects at the Yale Law Library, will be guest-blogging this week about the new edition of this …