Joel Schwartz is a writer and cultural critic who contributed essays and book reviews to The Weekly Standard from 1996 to 2012. His pieces for the magazine spanned politics, culture, and social policy, covering topics from poverty and public life to literature and media. He is affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, where he has focused on issues related to poverty and social welfare.
The strategic thinker Eliot Cohen begins this impressive book with a passage that (as he seemingly recognizes) will at first glance strike contemporary readers as laughable, if not ludicrous: “This book . . . deals with America’s most durable, and in many ways most effective and important enemy…
The Ten Commandments
Prices, Poverty, and Inequality
Sweating the Small Stuff
Media Madness
Sins of the Assassin
The Persistence of Poverty
Andrew Klavan is a prolific crime novelist and screenwriter, author of about 20 novels (some pseudonymous). He is also a conservative, as is evident in a January op-ed that he wrote for the Los Angeles Times, criticizing Hollywood for not making films about the war against Islamist terror:
Running Alone
The Moral Consequences
WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be a compassionate conservative? George W. Bush sought to answer that question, both in his acceptance speech in Philadelphia and (more extensively) in an address in Indianapolis on July 22, 1999. As a compassionate conservative, he proposes to "speak without apology for the…
It is a sign of the times that Mary Lefkowitz deserves great credit for writing Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (Basic Books, 222 pages, $ 24.00) even though it is a book that, as she herself recognizes, should not have needed to be written. Lefkowitz…