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Books Doonesbury’s Long, Not-So-Strange Trip Garry Trudeau may be a talented cartoonist, but more often than not he merely mirrors convention. Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography, by Joshua Kendall, Abrams Press, 339 pages. Early in my career as a second-grader, my teacher asked the class to take a piece of construction paper and draw the cover of a recently read book. For me, already a member of the journalism club, this was an ideal assignment, although it also brought forth the nascent contrarianism that would prove so useful in my professional career. I remember not wanting to pick a book that might be shared by a classmate. I…Open
Gregory Wrightstone’s A Very Convenient Warming challenges climate catastrophe narratives, arguing that historical evidence shows warmer periods and higher CO₂ often coincided with human flourishing. Source
The political scientist Francis Fukuyama looks back on his 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” and what it has predicted about the state of liberalism today.
The Pickle Factory is what happens when the ghosts of Catch-22 and a retired operations officer collaborate on a field manual for survival. Author Sam R. OYKEN – an all-caps CIA-style pseudonym, not an alias – has forged an intelligent and literary satirical espionage novel about the terminal-stage bureaucracy of CIA Headquarters. OYKEN’s tall tale about Andre B. KRAY shows the Agency as a sort of USAID without the sense of mission. KRAY is a clandestine service officer under Non-Official Cover, an NOC, recalled to Langley after a decade abroad. KRAY is the real deal. He’s an intelligence professional who wants to do the purposeful, old-fashioned work of recruiting agents, running operations, and living an adventurous life for…Open