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The Firm
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the Worldโs Most Powerful Consulting Firm by walt bogdanich and michael forsythe knopf doubleday, 368 pages, $32.50 Management consultingโ entered...
Made-For-TV Politics
The hearings of the January 6th Committee have flopped. Despite rave reviews from critics, audience reception has been tepid at best. Polling finds no indication that the hearings have...
Impersonal Responsibility
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynastyby patrick radden keefedoubleday, 560 pages, $32.50 How are we to assign responsibility for the opioid epidemic? Patrick Radden Keefe—the...
Andrew Sullivanโs Facts
Out on a Limb:Selected Writing, 1989-2021by andrew sullivannsimon and schuster, 576 pages, $35 Andrew Sullivan met his hero in the nick of time. Just thirteen months before Michael Oakeshottโs...
Gelded Critics of Capitalism
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernityby eugene mccarraher belknap, 816 pages, $39.95 Capitalism gets off easy these days. Its loud but underwhelming critics are...
Against Pro-Life Incrementalism
A crop of center-right commentators offered the pro-life movement some strategy tips last week. Responding to apparent pro-life victories in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and elsewhere, Jonathan Last, Rachael Larimore,...
LGBT, Inc.
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movementby david k. johnsoncolumbia, 328 pages, $32 How did the gay liberation movement, so radical in the Stonewall days, come to make...
Conservatismโs Next Generation
Thereโs a lot of hand-wringing in Washington over the dramas of the Trump administration, not to mention the tug-of-war over congressional seats and jobs in the bureaucracy. But when...
A Luther for Millennials
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World is the latest addition to Eric Metaxasโs pantheon of Protestant heroesโa worthwhile project, especially for millennials like me,...
A Report from Morningside
I just wrapped up my undergraduate career at Columbia University. It was a strange time to be a college studentโthanks in no small part to new movements in campus...