Northern Exposure

February 20, 2012 · Military, War, Joel Schwartz

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…

Better Off

May 4, 2009 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine, Books and Arts

Prices, Poverty, and Inequality

Pater Knows Best

February 2, 2009 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine, Books and Arts

Sweating the Small Stuff

Gone to Press

June 23, 2008 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine, Books and Arts

Media Madness

Poverty of Ideas

November 5, 2007 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Persistence of Poverty

The Klavan File

April 23, 2007 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine, Books and Arts

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:

Growing Pains

August 14, 2006 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Moral Consequences

Bracing Lessons for Bush

September 11, 2000 · Joel Schwartz, Magazine

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…

MYTHOLOGY AS HISTORY

March 18, 1996 · Joel Schwartz, Blog

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…