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December is here. The air is chill, the leaves have fallen, and children are preparing for school break, looking forward to wrapping presents in the glow of a decorous...

Xenosystemsby nick landpassage, 338 pages, $39.95 I read Nick Land’s Xenosystems on a sunny afternoon in California as Los Angeles burned to the ground. Wake up, log onto X.com,...

In an era in which the American dream slips ever further from the grasp of the common man, these two books seek the causes. What are the roots, both authors ask, of the...

On the second day of Christmas, Vivek Ramaswamy gave to America a diagnosis: We have a culture problem. “Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too...

All Desire Is a Desire for Beingby rené girard, selected by cynthia l. havenpenguin classics, 336 pages, $18 I probably took a bullet to the head because of the...

Minor Indignitiesby trevor cribben merrill wiseblood books, 233 pages, $15.80 Milan Kundera once admitted in a conversation with René Girard that if he had read the latter’s Deceit, Desire and the...

Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women by batya ungar-sargon encounter, 264 pages, $32.99 Of the two million waiters and waitresses working in America,” Batya...

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by jane mcalevey harpercollins, 304 pages, $16.99 Ten years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, HarperCollins shut down...