A conversation with Helaine Olen on her new book about personal-finance gurus
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Camelot’s Begetter
Besides being the father of John, Bobby, and Teddy, Joe Kennedy left behind a tattered legacy.
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The Best of David Foster Wallace
When the novelist learned to escape his own mind, he got a little closer to the greatness he sought.
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Want Less Inequality? Tax It
Revive the big idea of British economist Arthur C. Pigou! And apply it to America’s most outrageous problem.
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My Favorite Martian
Herman Wouk, who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Caine Mutiny way back in 1951 and later gifted heartland America with The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, among other pop-culture landmarks, has just come out with a new novel at the preposterous-not to say preposterously entertaining-age of 97. The Lawgiver, it’s called, and […]
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Nate Silver, Artist of Uncertainty
In the campaign’s last days, a leading political scientist says all hail to the polling guru’s sobering new book about predicting outcomes.
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The Great Conservative “No!”
William F. Buckley’s heirs are starving on a red-meat diet.
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“I Want to Stare Death in the Eye”
In posthumously published Mortality, Christopher Hitchens attempts desire voiced in Hitch-22.
