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For Christmas, Give Books that Last a Lifetime
Some of the best presents you can give to people over the holidays, or give yourself, are lavish books. I’m not talking about normal books, even the nice hardbacks from the display rack at Barnes &...
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Now, Even Dr. Seuss is Politically Incorrect
On September 26, Liz Phipps Soeiro, school librarian at the Cambridgeport Elementary School in upscale Cambridge, Mass., wrote a “thank-you” letter to First Lady Melania Trump for a gift of ten Dr....
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Is it Time for Conservatives to Create an Alternate Culture?
The culture leans sharply left, and in our current, highly-polarized political climate that means conservatives in the arts tend to be treated as outsiders at best and pariahs at worst. Listen to the...
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The Death of Reading
I read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis for the first time last December. A lifelong Christian and Narnia superfan, I’m late to the party, I know. But as the dust settled from an election that shined a...
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The Closing of the American Bookstore
On a lazy Saturday afternoon this summer, our family of six was ambling through the local streets of Plattsburgh, New York, skirting along Lake Champlain. Taking in the local storefronts and dining...
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What a Revolutionary War Hero Can Teach Us About How to Read
Recently, Bill Gates released his 5 Good Summer Reads. J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy is on the list, a recommendation I couldn’t agree with more – and in fact have gifted to several people this year. As...
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Why More Juvenile Delinquents Should Read
It’s a modern cliché to say that reading books will make you a better person—a more empathetic person, a more intelligent person, even a happier person. Research does indeed suggest many benefits...
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The Brave New World of Publishing’s “Sensitivity Readers”
Nothing so surely kills artistic expression and the free spirit of the imagination as political dogma. When politics hijacks art the result is propaganda—a blunt instrument of control instead of a...
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When Bad Words Are Said to Good Children
Should bad words be read to children? This question surfaced last week when children’s author Dan Gutman posted his response to a parent letter on Facebook asking whether it was appropriate to use the...
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Will Diversity Crusades Lead to More Banned Books?
The last week of September was National Banned Book Week in America, a celebratory campaign the American Library Association sponsors every year to highlight the freedom we have to read. The event also...
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Turn Off Your TV, Read A Book, Live Longer?
We live in a golden age of video content, whether it’s TV series funded by streaming networks like Amazon Prime and Netflix or indie Kickstarter-funded movies, of which there are more and more every...
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Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture?
I was once called a “cracker” by a member of the Nation of Islam. It was in the mid-1980s and I was driving through Washington, D.C., in the kind of neighborhood that conservatives call dangerous and...
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A Brief History of Summer Reading—It Wasn’t Always Beach Reads and Chick Lit
There was a time in America when summer reading was only for the “leisure class,” those who had the financial means to skip work, travel, and relax at a summer resort. Before the turn of the 20th...
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Lindy West and Nihilistic Feminism
“If you live today, you breathe in nihilism…it’s the gas you breathe,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in a letter in the mid-1950s. Such nihilism is now pervasive, inflicting enormous cultural destruction....
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Stop Dumbing Down Books for Teens
During my senior year AP English class in high school, we read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It was brutal. I thought I was a pretty good reader because I had worked my way through most of Jane...
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In Defense of the All-Male Book Club
Last week the Men’s Style section of The New York Times featured a piece, “Men Have Book Clubs, Too,” about the apparently growing phenomenon of men getting together to share literary interests and...
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The Virtues of Book Ownership
“Can you spare a dollar so I can buy this book?” I heard a man’s deep voice ask this question as I raced up a flight of stairs, speeding my way to the second floor of the local public library to drop...
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‘Peter Rabbit’ vs. ‘Polar Bear’s Underwear’: The Revenge of the Classics
More than 70 years after her death, Beatrix Potter has a new book coming out in September to coincide with the 150th anniversary of her birth. The long-lost manuscript of The Tale of Kitty-In-Boots,...
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Why Books are the Best Furniture
My son walked in from school the other day, a new book from the library tucked under one arm. “What’s the book about?” I asked. “A book on the Alamo,” he replied. “The librarian said it was beyond my...
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How a Former President Inspired a Family to Read 100 Books in a Year
The other day on Facebook, I saw a friend pictured with his kids and a frosted cake with the number 100 on it. Everyone was using their fingers to make the number 100 as well. When I asked my friend...
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