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Cover of Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

A review of Garry Wills's argument that we have spent two centuries reading Locke over Jefferson's shoulder.

Cover of Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

A review of Garry Wills's account of the 272 words that swapped the nation's founding document while the nation watched.

Cover of Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff: a lone rocket contrail twisting up an empty blue sky

Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Slobodian and Tarnoff treat Elon Musk as a coherent industrial formation with a lineage. A short defense of staying curious instead of rushing to a verdict.

Cover of The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Simone de Beauvoir's portrait of defective existential attitudes, and how they haunt the memory of youth.

Cover of Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man by Garry Wills

Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man

Rank punditry dressed up as a review of Garry Wills's "Nixon Agonistes".

Cover of The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch

The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

Why Lasch's warning about a managerial elite seceding from the rest of the country still reads like it was written about right now.