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Here are some pieces that have been especially favorably commented on, or frequently linked to, or (in a few instances) that I just feel particularly pleased with.
Date Periodical Title Book(s) reviewed, or topic of article
September 2006 The New Criterion C Divine Love, Divine Order An appreciation of Charles Kingsley
Spring 2006 The New Atlantis C Jules Verne: Father of Science Fiction? I think not.
May 9, 2005 National Review S Fountains and Stuff The Derbs do D.C.
Feb. 14, 2005 National Review A But Is It Science? Intelligent Design in the Age of Biology.
February 2005 The New Criterion C Alfred Duggan's Past Historical fiction, and one of its grandmasters.
Dec. 31, 2004 National Review S Yes, Un-Deedy Deediness is next to Godliness.
Aug. 26, 2004 The New York Sun R Channeling Bertrand Russell The End of Faith, by Sam Harris
Summer 2004 Claremont Review of Books R On A Green Knoll Apart W.B. Yeats: A Life, Vol. II, by R.F. Foster
May 3, 2004 National Review S Book Report Reading books for a living.
May, 2004 The New Criterion A The Strangest Travel Book Ever Written An African in Greenland and the state of the culture.
Apr. 27, 2004 The New York Sun R Ya bo!  Invooboo Scouting for Boys, by Robert Baden-Powell
Spring 2004 Claremont Review of Books R A Dance to the (Disco) Music of Time Homosexuality and Civilization, by Louis Crompton
Mar. 22, 2004 National Review R Shrewd, But Small Chiang Kai Shek, by Jonathan Fenby
Feb. 9, 2004 National Review S The Decline of Stuff When things were made of wood and iron.
Dec. 22, 2003 National Review R The Datanaut Human Accomplishment, by Charles Murray
July 14, 2003 National Review S Name That Tune I can't.
May 19, 2003 The American Conservative R Minority Report World on Fire, by Amy Chua
Mar. 10, 2003 The American Conservative R The Marx of the Anti-Semites The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald
March 2003 The New Criterion R E pluribus plurimum Diversity: The Invention of a Concept by Peter Wood
February 2003 The New Criterion C What Happened to Aldous Huxley? The last metaphysician.
Oct. 14, 2002 National Review R Hiberno-Fascism 1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan
April 2002 The New Criterion R The Uses of Quietism Dao De Jing:  The Book of the Way by Laozi, translated & with commentary by Moss Roberts
Dec. 3, 2001 National Review A Crusading They Went Godfrey de Bouillon was a Republican.
July 9, 2001 National Review A Stars Above! Astrology in the ascendant.
February 2001 Parnassus: Poetry in Review C All the way to Chang-fêng-sha Medieval Chinese poetry and its translations.
December 2000 The New Criterion C In the Bivouac of Life Longfellow's poetry.
Nov. 20, 2000 National Review A The End of the Ectomorph What happened to the skinny male?
July 17, 2000 National Review A The Longest, Awfullest Game Soccer, of course.
March 2000 The New Criterion C Rudyard Kipling & the god of things as they are An appreciation of Old Eyebrows
Jan. 17, 2000 Weekly Standard A The Onomastic Cringe Who the heck are the Roma?
May 3, 1999 National Review A Forget About It The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dead Horses unmasked
Sep. 14, 1998 National Review R A Writer All Through The King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage, by Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis:  A Biography, by Eric Jacobs
Jul. 25, 1987 Spectator A *Getting Married in Manchuria An account of my marriage
? Early 1984 Daily Telegraph R *The 'Saint' beside Mao Chou: the Story of Zhou Enlai, by Dick Wilson

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