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Video Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble
  7 Jul 2012     4:19 pm      Ed Driscoll

Since my blog was one of many inspired by Instapundit.com in the immediate wake of 9/11, and since it’s celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, I had wanted to do a video interview with Glenn Reynolds to discuss the history and state of the Blogosphere. Given that he has a new “Broadside” (much longer than most magazine articles, but shorter than most books) from Encounter Books on the Higher Education Bubble and the impact of its aftermath on both students and academia, this seemed like the perfect opportunity. With a …

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“Sports Book Hall of Fame: Searching for Bobby Fischer”
  6 May 2012     5:50 am      Craig Newmark

I haven’t read the book, but I do like the movie a lot.

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Tom Grace’s “The Liberty Intrigue”
  12 Feb 2012     6:58 pm      Bookworm

One of the nicest perks about having a slightly well-known blog is the fact that authors and publishers occasionally ask me to review a book. In this way, I get the opportunity to read books that I otherwise wouldn’t even know exist. My approach to book reviews is simple: If I enjoy the book, I’m happy to review it, because I want to share my good fortune with my friends. If I don’t enjoy a book, however, I don’t give it a bad review. Instead, I don’t review the book …

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Verdict for America: Solutions for our Most Pressing Problems
  5 Dec 2011     4:57 pm      Rachel Alexander

Bill Ponath, an attorney and long-time pro tem judge, has written the definitive up-to-date and eye-opening book on the most critical issues facing the U.S. Written so anyone will understand, but not so basic as to bore the experienced politico, he analyzes eight issues thoroughly and recommends insightful common sense solutions.
At one point the U.S. had its act together. Bill lays out the mistakes we made and the only rational solutions to overcome our errors. For example: In Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia their economies tanked based upon their socialist/communist …

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The Last 220 Books I’ve Read
  31 Oct 2011     4:40 am      John Hawkins

As part of a never-ending series, I like to do short reviews of the books I read. Here are the latest 10 books I’ve read along with the previous 210 that I’ve perused included.
PS: If you’re wondering why there are very few low rated books on this list, it’s because I have a low tolerance for boredom and tend to just stop reading publications that don’t hold my interest. Sometimes I go back to them and sometimes I don’t.
PS #2: Some of these books were sent to me by publishers, …

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Q&A Friday #108: What 5 Books Should Be Required Reading For All High School Seniors?
  29 Jul 2011     6:01 am      John Hawkins

Question: If you were tasked with creating a list of 5 books that would be required reading for all HS seniors in your school district, which books would you include and why? — Good_Ol_Boy
Answer: This is a fun question. Difficult, too, but still fun. I’m going to assume that I have carte blanche here and can suggest anything I want without regard to legal or literary merit. I’m also going to leave off the Bible because I haven’t finished reading it cover-to-cover myself and it seems a bit hypocritical to …

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Short Video Book Review: Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson
  9 Oct 2010     3:09 pm      Lee Doren

People have wanted me to talk about this book for quite a while. I read it a few years ago, but since I’m always pushing Thomas Sowell’s books, here is another that I’d highly recommend. Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is the perfect book to give to family and friends.

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10 Reasons Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics Should Have Been Called Ironic Clueless Narcissist
  5 Sep 2010     7:56 pm      Jenn Q. Public

Originally posted at David Horowitz’s NewsReal
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by Jenn Q. Public & Lori Ziganto
The long awaited train wreck known as Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics was released August 31, 2010. She totally wrote it. By. Herself. And we read it – the entire 194, long, painful pages. We are givers like that, even though we are now slack-jawed and drooling givers, but still. If you’ve read Meggie Mac’s Daily Beast articles, you can pretty much guess at the level of insight offered …

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Book Review: The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and The Closing of the American Mind
  5 Sep 2010     11:11 am      Lee Doren

This is a book review of Greg Gutfeld’s, The Bible of Unspeakable Truths and Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind. I thought the Closing of the American Mind was boring, and no that doesn’t make you intellectually inferior if you thought the same thing. Greg Gutfeld’s book, however, made the exact same point as Allan Bloom, but it was entertaining, funny and certainly worth getting.

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Publisher’s Warning Label: That Constitution and Declaration is No Longer Valid Thinking
  10 Jun 2010     1:36 pm      Warner Todd Huston

A Virginia-based publisher has decided that the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other founding books are likely offensive and they want their readers to understand that these old documents are no longer valid ways of thinking. And so the publisher, Wilder Publications, has put a warning label on its reprints of America’s founding documents and books to shield American’s delicate sensibilities.
The warning label reads, “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might …

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Podcast: The Black Genocide & Book Reviews With Bise
  9 Mar 2010     8:50 am      Melissa Clouthier

Catherine Davis of Georgia Right to Life talks the “black genocide” and the controversial billboard campaign. In the second half, Jimmie Bise of SundriesShack.com talks Seth Godin’s book Linchpin and Gary Vanderchuck’s book Crush it. Which book should you buy? Listen and find out.

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New Video: ‘Ayn Rand: Goddess Of The Market’
  22 Feb 2010     5:03 pm      Ed Driscoll

Jennifer Burns, the author of the best-selling late 2009 book on Ayn Rand’s remarkably contentious history with the American right stopped by the vast Silicon Graffiti production facilities last week to discuss her book and the research that went into it.

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The Intellectuals What Ain’t
  9 Feb 2010     2:29 pm      Warner Todd Huston

There is no better example of how low intellectuals have fallen than the case of Bernard-Henri Lévy, intellectual, provocateur, member of the well-regarded French nouveaux philosophes and, it seems, all around gullible fool.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, better known to those in the know as BHL, has become a laughing stock of modern inteleckshoouls everywhere with the publication of his much anticipated book on philosopher Immanuel Kant.
Oh, there’s sharp criticism in Lévy’s new Kantallope, there’s bomb thrown name calling, and nose-up-turning galore. Kant, according to Lévy, is a “raving lunatic” and a …

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