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The Firm

Philip Jeffery

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by walt bogdanich and michael forsythe knopf doubleday, 368 pages, $32.50 Management consulting” entered...

Made-For-TV Politics

Philip Jeffery

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

Philip Jeffery

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 Sullivan’s Facts

Philip Jeffery

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 Oakeshott’s...

Gelded Critics of Capitalism

Philip Jeffery

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

Philip Jeffery

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.

Philip Jeffery

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...

Conservatism’s Next Generation

Philip Jeffery

There’s 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

Philip Jeffery

Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World is the latest addition to Eric Metaxas’s pantheon of Protestant heroes—a worthwhile project, especially for millennials like me,...

A Report from Morningside

Philip Jeffery

I just wrapped up my undergraduate career at Columbia University. It was a strange time to be a college student—thanks in no small part to new movements in campus...