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Here are those of my reviews that don't fit into any other category.
| Date | Place | Review Title | Book Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | ||||
| January 2016 | The New Criterion | Stuff Happens | The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge | Matt Ridley |
| 2015 | ||||
| May 7, 2015 | Chronicles | Blessed Be the Passionate | H is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald |
| 2014 | ||||
| February 27, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | Useless Mouths | The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies |
Erik Brynjolfsson Andrew McAfee |
| 2013 | ||||
| October 31, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | Faking Sincerity | Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to say (no matter how dull) |
R. Jay Magill, Jr. |
| 2012 | ||||
| Winter 2011/12 | Claremont Review of Books |
The Importance of a College Education |
Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kids Into College In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic |
Andrew Ferguson "Professor X" |
| 2010 | ||||
| May 19, 2010 | Taki's Magazine | Airing Otherwise Unpalatable Truths | Two and a Half Men | Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn |
| 2009 | ||||
| March 18, 2009 | Taki's Magazine | "The Troubles" Continue | Watching the Door | Kevin Myers |
| 2008 | ||||
| October 20, 2008 | The American Conservative | Getting It White | Stuff White People Like | Christian Lander |
| March 2008 | The New Criterion | Man is Wolf to Wolf. | American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau |
edited by Bill McKibben |
| 2007 | ||||
| April 21, 2007 | The Wall Street Journal | To: Emailers Subject: Etiquette. |
Send | David Shipley & Will Schwalbe |
| 2005 | ||||
| November 5-6, 2005 | The Wall Street Journal | Civility Under Siege | Talk to the Hand | Lynne Truss |
| March 27, 2005 | The Washington Examiner | Poetry's Plum Gone to Hell | Break, Blow, Burn | Camille Paglia |
| 2004 | ||||
| July 24 2004 | National Review Online | Oh, the Songs! | De-Lovely | Irwin Winkler |
| May 2004 | The New Criterion | The Strangest Travel Book Ever Written |
An African in Greenland | Tété-Michel Kpomassie |
| April 27, 2004 | The New York Sun | Ya bo! Invooboo | Scouting for Boys | Robert Baden-Powell. |
| January 4, 2004 | The Washington Times | A Kazakh Sport's Lasting Allure | Eagle Dreams | Stephen J. Bodio |
| 2003 | ||||
| January 29, 2003 | NRO | The Old, Weird America | Hank Williams: Lost Highway | A play by Randal Myler and Mark Harelik. |
| 2002 | ||||
| December 19, 2002 | National Review | Derbazon.com | (Various books) | My Christmas roundup. |
| May 20, 2002 | National Review | Exiles on Main Street | The Middle of Everywhere | Mary Pipher, Ph.D. |
| January 2002 | The New Criterion | The Age of Bad Ideas | Life at the Bottom | Theodore Dalrymple |
| 2001 | ||||
| October 26, 2001 | NRO | Bellini? — Aaaaah! | The opera Norma | Vincenzo Bellini |
| January 2001 | The New Criterion | Valiant for Truth. | Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects |
Martin Gardner |
| 2000 | ||||
| December 23, 2000 | NRO | Christmas Book Selections | (End of year round-up) | |
| Before 2000 | ||||
| November 1999 | The New Criterion | Serious About Books | The Book On the Bookshelf | Henry Petroski |