Thomas Johnson contributed cultural commentary and literary criticism to The Weekly Standard between 2009 and 2015. His writing for the magazine ranged from book reviews and essays on literature to pieces addressing academic culture and higher education controversies.
Though the release of The Great Fire was probably timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide, this scholarly yet engaging account is concerned with the September 1922 burning of Smyrna, following its occupation by the Turkish nationalist army, and the mass slaughter…
Air conditioning is a hot topic in the nation’s capital. An article in the September 16 Washington Post announced, “The Obama administration is preparing to introduce major steps to phase out production of a popular chemical coolant [R134-a] used in refrigerators and air conditioners, citing…
Our author, professor of creative writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is apparently a huge nerd, and the title of his first short story collection allows the science fiction-savvy reader to discern this fact upfront. Omicron Ceti III is the name of the planet featured in the Star…
Her Fearful Symmetry
Contentions has two excellent blog posts, the first by Noah Pollak and the second by Ted R. Bromund, about the recent decision by Yale University to censor an upcoming book it is releasing about the 2005 Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy, The Cartoons That Shook the World, by removing from it the…
It looks like good opinion and bad opinion are starting to meet in the middle for Obama. Rasmussen reports that the President's "strongly approve" rating has fallen from roughly 42 percent to roughly 32 percent since Inauguration Day, while his "strongly disapprove" rating has risen from roughly 14…