Guide for the Discerning Gift-Giver
It occurs to me that WEEKLY STANDARD readers, sitting at home and avoiding the malls this weekend, may be wondering: What presents should I be giving to my discerning friends, discriminating acquaintances, and benighted relatives for the holidays?
Answer: Gift subscriptions to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, of course–available with just a few mouse-clicks at this website. Give [...]
Mark Moyar: Lessons of Iraq
Mark Moyar is the Kim T. Anderson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the Marine Corps University. He is the author of the revisionist history Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, now available in paperback.
The occasion of this post is Professor Moyar’s new book, noted below. But before getting to that, [...]
Lessons of the Fall
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
By Adrian Goldsworthy
(Yale University Press, 560 pages, $32.50)
Adrian Goldsworthy is a great name for a classicist, and,
fortunately, Adrian Goldsworthy is a classicist of the first
order. He earned his doctorate at Oxford, and is the author [...]
Yale and the Danish cartoons
Sarah Ruden is a poet who has produced an esteemed translation of Vergil’s Aeneid. She also wrote an interesting essay (subscribers only) about the Aeneid and the experience of translating it that was published a few years ago in the New Criterion.
Ruden’s translation of the Aeneid is published by Yale University Press. In [...]
A good time to be a jihadist
Terrorists and their supporters are having a good run, as Jed Babbin shows. Last week, Scotland released Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, who murdered 270 people, including 189 Americans 11 Scots, by placing a bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988. Megrahi, who was released (at least ostensibly) for reasons of [...]
The case of the missing cartoons
Why did Yale University Press remove the Muhammad cartoons from Brandeis University Professor Jytte Klausen’s forthcoming book on the cartoon controversy? It turns out, Roger Kimball reports, the question is not susceptible to an easy answer. Kimball explores the question in “Villain or fall guy: Yale and the case of the missing cartoons.” [...]
