What Deng Xiaoping, Pope John Paul, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Margaret Thatcher had in common.
Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, May/June 2013, Politics
Overthinking Obama
Forget Kenya. The president’s secret political philosophy is apparently rooted in seventeenth-century Rotterdam.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, March/April 2013
Slaves of Defunct Economists
Why politicians pursue austerity policies that never work.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April 2013
Charity Case
How taxpayers subsidize failing philanthropies.
Posted inBooks, Government, Health Care, Magazine, March/April 2013
Consequential Drift
The government program where party differences have widened the most, and matter the most, is Medicaid.
Posted inBooks, Law and Justice, Magazine, March/April 2013
Bar Examined
The ever-diminishing advantages of a career in the law versus the undiminished enthusiasm of law schools to mint new attorneys.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, March/April 2013, Politics
Chávez’s Magical Realism
How the Comandante may get the last laugh, even from the grave.
Posted inMagazine
Dixie’s Enemy Within
How the ideology of white supremacy undermined the South’s own war effort.
Posted inBooks, Government, Health Care, January/February 2013, Magazine
Did Hurricane Sandy Save Obamacare?
How disaster relief justifies the welfare state.
Posted inBooks, Education, January/February 2013, K-12, Magazine
Class No Longer Dismissed
Why some conservatives are warming to socioeconomic school integration.
