BY ADAM GOPNIK BASIC BOOKS, 2019 272 PP., $26.00 The late pundit Irving Kristol, whose career began in left-wing politics and ended in neoconservatism, famously declared, “A neoconservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by... Read More

BY KRIS NEWBY HARPER WAVE, 2019 336 PP.; $28.99 Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby adds significantly to our understanding of Lyme disease, while oddly seeming to avoid... Read More

BY MARTIN HAGGLUND PANTHEON, 2019 464 PP.; $29.95 While a life without belief in a god is often discussed these days, less examined is the corollary to that lack of belief, which is the absence... Read More

BY SIMON TAM TROUBLEMAKER PRESS, 2019 326 PP.; $26.99 Debates on free speech nowadays tend to revolve around whether one should be free to call their Pakistani neighbor racial slurs without consequence or whether university... Read More

BY WILL HUNT SPIEGEL & GRAU, 2018 275 PP., $27.00 Underground is a strange little book, and not just because it reveres caves, catacombs, and sewers—the earth’s mantle below us. Will Hunt not only revels... Read More

BY JONATHAN METZL BASIC BOOKS, 2019 352 PP.; $32.00 Almost everyone will be familiar with the general thesis of Jonathan Metzl’s book, Dying of Whiteness: that non-rich whites vote against their material interests when they vote... Read More

BY STEVEN PEARLSTEIN ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2018 205 PP.; $27.99 Steven Pearlstein’s Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor is as mildly unconventional... Read More