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Zoning Out
In an era in which the American dream slips ever further from the grasp of the common man, these two books seek the causes. What are the roots, both authors ask, of the...
Is Vivek Right About America?
On the second day of Christmas, Vivek Ramaswamy gave to America a diagnosis: We have a culture problem. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too...
Searching for Our Plot of Innocence
All Desire Is a Desire for Beingby rené girard, selected by cynthia l. havenpenguin classics, 336 pages, $18 I probably took a bullet to the head because of the...
To Desire Like a Little Child
Minor Indignitiesby trevor cribben merrill wiseblood books, 233 pages, $15.80 Milan Kundera once admitted in a conversation with René Girard that if he had read the latter’s Deceit, Desire and the...
Raw Deal
Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by batya ungar-sargon encounter, 264 pages, $32.99 Of the two million waiters and waitresses working in America,” Batya...
Conservatives for Labor
A Collective Bargain:Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracyby jane mcaleveyharpercollins, 304 pages, $16.99 Ten years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, HarperCollins shut down its last two...
