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It’s a rare book that opens with the writer admitting he’s an asshole, and different readers will, of course, respond differently to this unique authorial strategy. Do we hurl the book across...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/all-about-ed/

Are you a loser? Jim VandeHei, the founder of two successful media startups, has some advice: Don't be. Do you constantly fantasize about crushing your enemies? Don't do that, either. Unless they...

https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/culture/finally-a-self-help-book-for-humble-geniuses/

Edward VIII—the only English monarch, to date, to have voluntarily abdicated, taking on the title of duke of Windsor thereafter—has not had the best reputation when it comes to his historical...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/royal-revision/

This rich and sometimes compelling book touches on multiple newsworthy themes, but its central thesis will come as no surprise to anyone who closely follows U.S. politics. Joe Biden “ran for pr...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/left-to-their-own-devices/

This brief but informative volume by Allen C. Guelzo offers up "the Great Emancipator" as a guide for Americans in our current time of troubles when many harbor doubts about the future of popular...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/what-would-lincoln-do/

In the mid-1980s through early-1990s, no mortal exhibited electric masculinity like Randall Mario Poffo, the wrestling superstar better known by his stage name: "Macho Man" Randy Savage. The po...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/intoxicating-masculinity/

I have known Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, but until I read his autobiography, I was unaware that he is not only one of the great essayists in English literature but also an amateur juggler...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/lucky-joe/

"My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple," Ronald Reagan told Richard Allen, his future national security adviser, in 1977. "We win and they lose." Reagan lived to see his po...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-reagan-trump-roadmap/

When I was 16, on the recommendation of Oprah Winfrey, I read Eat, Pray, Love (2006). The bestselling memoir tells of "one woman’s search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia," as ...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-marriage-bonus/

For months, word has spread about the new movie Civil War. It's the most incendiary film of our time! Controversial! A president who claims a third term presides over a crumbling America that li...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/review-civil-war/

Liberal journalists are particularly excited about the eclipse because it's an opportunity to do what they love most: telling their fellow Americans what to do. They have published numerous artic...

https://freebeacon.com/author/stiles/culture/how-to-watch-the-eclipse-without-looking-like-a-total-dork/

Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue is the best-selling instrumental jazz album of all time. As the music-buying public is rightly suspicious of jazz, that makes Kind of Blue the kind of jazz t...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/when-jazz-struck-a-chord/

There are two mistakes we can make about life in North America in the first century of English colonization. The first is the common one which many, if not most, of us grew up with, that the Engl...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/raid-and-remembrance/

The first shocking thing about Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is that it is over 700 pages long and includes almost another hundred of notes. The second shoc...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/his-word-was-his-bond/

Reading an account of Kamala Harris’s political career is like examining the stalled career of a can’t-miss baseball prospect struggling to hit major league pitching. In Charlie Spiering’s ...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/kamala-harris-and-the-art-of-failing-up/

Between the end of the Civil War and the enactment of the Civil Rights Act (1964) and Voting Rights Act (1965), the goal of nearly all advocates of racial equality in the United States could be s...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/a-compelling-case-for-colorblindness/

When I first moved to Washington, I lived in a townhouse on Capitol Hill with 10 other Christian men. We frequently hosted guests for dinner and, one night, Aaron Renn was kind enough to join us....

https://freebeacon.com/culture/pro-tips-for-the-protestants/

The approach is imaginative: to present a snapshot of the British Empire a century ago, five years after its victory in the First World War, when its territory was most extensive and at what must...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/imperial-quandary/

For as long as there has been “capitalism,” there have been observers predicting its demise—most famously Karl Marx himself, who helped popularize the term. Nearly a century later, James Bu...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/serfing-the-internet/

After the filming of Cleopatra, the notorious flop epic that cemented the union of the actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, the Vatican was driven to make a public condemnation of the two,...

https://freebeacon.com/culture/infernal-affair/