How James Burnham, a basketball game and the immigrants from Chiquimula, Guatemala fit into past and future of my hometown Brewster, New York. Originally appeared in the American Conservative for their September 11th 2006 issue.

My review of Joel Miller's book Size Matters, a book that argues inventively that as the quantity of government increases the quality of our lives decreases.

Jeremy Lott, now my friend, penned In Defense of Hypocrisy - a book that needs to be read by anyone who plans on making any decision that have a moral component. That means you. Here is my interview with Mr. Lott.

My argravatingly sympathetic review to Ann Coulter's book Godless - which rehashes some familiar material but under the rhetorical power of a different metaphor.

The Right has adopted populism and constantly rages against the elites. So why aren't we talking about James Burnham, a mid-century conservative thinker who sought to understand how elites seize, maintain and expand their power?

My review of Peter Garulnik's massive biography of soul singer, Sam Cooke - an astounding piece of work that tells us as much about our uneasy relationship to popular culture as it does about Sam Cooke himself.

Jon Meachem's book on religion in the public life in America is basically awful.

The case of young conservative Ben Domenech can teach upcoming political activists and writers alot about our new digital age.