| Date |
Periodical |
|
Title |
Book(s) reviewed, or topic
of article |
|
Dec. 5 |
National Review |
S |
Bonfire Memories |
Fifth of November. |
|
Nov. 7 |
National Review |
A |
The Specter of Difference |
The r-word just won't go away. |
|
Nov. 7 |
National Review |
S |
Law's Grave Study |
Oblique comment on the Miers nomination. |
|
Nov. 5-6 |
The Wall Street Journal |
R |
Civility
Under Siege |
Talk to the Hand, by Lynne Truss |
|
November |
The New Criterion |
R |
Hypothesis Finxit |
Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis, by Dan Rockmore. |
|
November |
(Not published) |
R+ |
Magic Flute Without the Music |
Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin |
|
Oct. 24 |
National Review |
R |
Big Cheeses |
La Belle France, by Alistair Horne. |
|
Oct. 10 |
National Review |
S |
The Same Old Story |
Murder, then & now. |
|
Sept. 12 |
National Review |
S |
Grand Tour |
London, Paris, and Rome with the Derbs. |
|
Sept. 1 |
The New York Sun |
R |
What's the Big Idea? |
Ideas, by Peter Watson |
|
September |
The New Criterion |
R |
Less Than Zero |
Infinite Ascent, by David Berlinski |
|
Aug. 22 |
The New York Sun |
R |
Henry Luce's Foreign Policy |
Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in
Asia, by Robert E. Herzstein |
|
Aug. 8 |
National Review |
S |
Competitive
Instincts |
New Statesman competitions. |
|
July 18 |
National Review |
R |
The Dress of Thought |
Empires of the Word, by Nicholas Ostler |
|
July 4 |
National Review |
S |
Blinding Science |
The school science fair. |
|
June 22 |
The New York Sun |
R |
The Beer
Tasted Better |
The Edwardians, by Roy Hattersley |
|
June 20 |
National Review |
R |
The Birds and the Bees |
Madame Bovary's Ovaries, by D.P. & N.R. Barash |
|
June 6 |
National Review |
S |
Britain Turns |
The U.K. election. |
|
May 9 |
National Review |
S |
Fountains and Stuff |
The Derbs do D.C. |
|
Apr. 11 |
National Review |
S |
Last Call |
Old age and its discontents. |
|
Mar. 27 |
The Washington Examiner |
R |
Poetry's Plum Gone to Hell |
Break, Blow, Burn, by Camille Paglia. |
|
Mar. 13 |
National Review |
S |
Vox Humana |
I hear voices. |
|
Mar. 2 |
The New York Sun |
R |
Kurt Gödel's Astounding
Achievement |
Incompleteness, by Rebecca Goldstein |
|
Feb. 28 |
National Review |
R |
When Theories Collide |
Big Bang, by Simon Singh |
|
Feb. 14 |
National Review |
A |
But
Is It Science? |
Intelligent Design in the Age of Biology. |
|
Feb. 14 |
National Review |
S |
Count Me Out |
I meet a census form. |
|
Feb. 2 |
The New York Sun |
R |
Amateur Totalitarianism |
Pol Pot, by Philip Short |
|
February |
The New Criterion |
C |
Alfred Duggan's Past |
Historical fiction, and one of its grandmasters. |