Book Recommendation: ‘Boys in the Boat’
One of the best books I have read is “Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics” by Daniel James Brown, an account of ...
06-27-2023
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‘A World War Two Secret: Glenn P. Larson and the U-505’
Glenn Larson was a 19-year-old North Dakota farm boy when the United States entered World War II. He volunteered for the U.S. Navy in December 1942. He could ...
07-5-2023
O. Henry’s Short Story, ‘The Romance of a Busy Broker’
In "Essays, Letters and Miscellanies," Leo Tolstoy says: "Stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." Tolstoy urges us to resist the human tendency to be so ...
07-5-2023
Baseball Book Classics
Many people have a soft spot for baseball, America's national pastime. Although having some enthusiasm for the sport won’t hurt, the following books are likely to be a ...
07-4-2023
The Perpetual Return: Fidelity in the ‘Odyssey’
What does it mean to return? What does it mean to come home? Home is where one belongs, the people and places that are ours while we are ...
07-2-2023
Book Review: James Fenelon’s ‘Angels Against the Sun’
In “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” the movie about the Korean War based on James Michener’s novel, Rear Adm. George Tarrant watches as his pilots take off from the pitching ...
07-1-2023
Book Review: ‘Knowing What We Know’
Author Simon Winchester is a prolific writer with more than 30 books to his credit. He has a distinctive knack for storytelling that readers will appreciate. He can ...
06-30-2023
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for June 30–July 6
This week, we feature a naval history of an important British evacuation and a lush novel about the fate of three generations of an Indian family. Fiction ‘The ...
06-30-2023
2022’s ‘In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West’
When social activists and ideologically driven historians claim something is evil by virtue of its existence, chances are those who receive that information are missing context. Typically, a ...
06-29-2023
Oh, How Guinea Pigs Multiply: ‘Pigs Is Pigs’
In his poem "Marmion," Walter Scott says: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive." When dishonesty leads us in all that ...
06-27-2023
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for June 23–29
This week, we feature a meticulous biography of the remarkable President James A. Garfield and a slim gem that illuminates the importance of fiction. Nonfiction ‘The Novel, Who ...
06-23-2023
The Jungle Holds a New Election: The True Leader Proves Himself by His Qualities
At a great meeting of the Animals, who had gathered to elect a new ruler, the Monkey was asked to dance. This he did so well, with a ...
06-23-2023
Book Review: ‘The Covenant of Water’
Author Abraham Verghese’s previous novel, “Cutting for Stone,” occupies a prestigious literary spotlight as it's spent more than two years on a bestseller list. “The Covenant of Water,” released ...
06-22-2023
Aesop’s Fable ‘The Bear and the Bees’: To Bear in Silence
When we fail to restrain our passions or impatience, we cultivate harmful habits that can lead us to act out in detrimental and intractable ways. However, rather than being ...
06-21-2023
A Pork’s Guide to Virtue: “Five Little Pigs”
This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed home, This little piggy had roast beef This little piggy had none, And this little piggy cried wee ...
06-19-2023
Book Review: Hitler’s Maladies and Their Impact on World War II: A Behavioral Neurologist’s View’
The mental health of Adolf Hitler has been an ongoing discussion since before his death in the spring of 1945. Historians and psychologists have endeavored to get to ...
06-18-2023
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for June 16–22
This week, we feature a winning romance with a time-hopping heroine and a comprehensive history that explores how the Allies won World War II. Fiction ‘In This Moment’ ...
06-16-2023
Book Review: ‘Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa’
For those interested in the minute details of how tank warfare was conducted during 1940 and 1941 in North Africa, Robert Forczyk has written an exhaustive work in ...
06-15-2023
Book Review: ‘Miracles’: A Novel of the Unbelievable
In John Coleman’s “Miracles,” his protagonist, Jaime Halasz, is a young, ambitious reporter with a newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia. She is, by nature, skeptical and would not consider ...
06-14-2023
Book Review: ‘Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History’
"Immigration is tough. It always has been because, on the one hand, I think we are naturally a people that wants to help others. And we see tragedy ...
06-14-2023
George Herbert’s ‘The Pulley’: The Gifts of Rest and Restlessness
“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you,” wrote St. Augustine. Over 1,000 years later, George Herbert wrote a poem giving us the backstory as to why ...
06-13-2023
Book Review: ‘Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games’
Danel Olson is known in the academic and film world for dissecting the psychology and history behind well-known films, like “Pan's Labyrinth” and “The Shining.” His latest works ...
06-12-2023
Book Review: ‘Feminism Against Progress’
Anyone familiar with Mary Harrington’s columns in UnHerd will know her as a thinker of exceptional originality, acuity and freshness. Her first book does not disappoint her fans. It is ...
06-11-2023