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The Firm
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firmby walt bogdanich and michael forsytheknopf doubleday, 368 pages, $32.50 Management consulting” entered my vocabulary...
Made-For-TV Politics
The hearings of the January 6th Committee have flopped. Despite rave reviews from critics, audience reception has been tepid at best. Polling finds no indication that the hearings have...
Impersonal Responsibility
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastyby patrick radden keefedoubleday, 560 pages, $32.50 How are we to assign responsibility for the opioid epidemic? Patrick Radden Keefe—the...
Andrew Sullivan’s Facts
Out on a Limb:Selected Writing, 1989-2021by andrew sullivannsimon and schuster, 576 pages, $35 Andrew Sullivan met his hero in the nick of time. Just thirteen months before Michael Oakeshott’s...
Gelded Critics of Capitalism
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernityby eugene mccarraher belknap, 816 pages, $39.95 Capitalism gets off easy these days. Its loud but underwhelming critics are...
LGBT, Inc.
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movementby david k. johnsoncolumbia, 328 pages, $32 How did the gay liberation movement, so radical in the Stonewall days, come to make...
Conservatism’s Next Generation
There’s a lot of hand-wringing in Washington over the dramas of the Trumpn administration, not to mention the tug-of-war over congressional seats andn jobs in the bureaucracy. But when...
