Books
Opiate for the leftists
How Wokeism tries (and succeeds) at filling a religion-shaped void within the American left’s psyche
Overarching view of the air war
These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
The fanatical commissar of killing
An engaging and thoroughly readable new biography on Boris Savinkov
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
Fairgrounds, Franco, and the future of Spain
An author challenges her nation’s collective and individual self-deceptions
When in Romania…
This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet