Books
A newly translated play and a new biography alter his image as a disinterested aesthete.
The Man With the Kind Face
Roger Ailes wanted a friendly biography. Zev Chafets was just the man for the job.
Roger Ailes wanted a friendly biography. Author Zev Chafets was the man for the job.
He's not a bleeding heart, but... Ailes suffered from hemophilia and almost died after he bit his tongue as a pre-schooler. His father rushed him to a hospital sixty miles away. Chafets writes: "Bob Ailes’s coworkers from Packard came to the clinic to donate blood. 'Always remember,' Bob Ailes told his son, 'you’ve got blue collar in your veins.'" (page 9)
Crime and punishment in an early modern city.
Howard Zinn copied, pasted, and simplified his way to A People's History of the United States. The rest of his scholarship wasn't much better.
Just what did he know about AIG and Citigroup. Plus: What about those F-Bombs?
The American Voices of the Islamist Regime in Iran
Two former U.S. officials make the case for accommodation
How did two former members of the National Security Council come to support a repressive theocracy?
Touré's new book claims that Prince was little more than a pied piper for evangelical Christianity.
Are our stress-levels rising? Or are we just finding new ways to talk about them?
Margaret Fuller’s early death meant she never got to see the promised land.
