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NR will review the new biographies of Ayn Rand in due course 

NR will review the new biographies of Ayn Rand in due course. We reviewed another Rand-related book once upon a time ("Out of a lifetime of...

Welfare and self-interest 

There is an interesting story about how conservative icon Whittaker Chambers came to accept the inevitability of the welfare state. Chambers owned...

Requiem for the Right 

The biographer of Whittaker Chambers and William Buckley on a dying movement. The editor of The New York Times Book Review and the paper’s...

Lessons still to be learned from story of alger hiss 

By James E. Person Jr.

Special to The Virginian-Pilot

To many Americans today, the dramatic public confrontation between...

Hinge of history 

The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, by Michael Kimmage (Harvard, 440 pp., $45) The...

A modern Burke: Lionel Trilling was also a liberal reformer of conservative temperament 

IN THE FALL OF 1951, I began my senior year at Columbia University and signed up for Lionel Trilling's course in 19th-century English literature....

Contra Costa Times local scoreboard 

BASKETBALL JC women Merritt 65, Los Medanos 64 At Merritt College Los Medanos (9-18, 5-8 BVC) Lynch 0 0-0 0, Capilli 7 7-9 25, Gui 0...

Oakland Tribune/West County Times local scoreboard 

BASKETBALL JC women Friday BVC Contra Costa 68, Merritt 39 Note: Game called with 5:09 left due to lack of Merritt players. Contra...

The Doom of statism 

Mark Steyn ("Dimpled Ruin") may "hate to be the Gloomy Gus," but his "incremental decay" reminds this anxious conservative of an earlier gloomy and...

John Leonard was an omnivorous and omnicompetent reviewer, for the New York Times and a raft of other publications 

John Leonard was an omnivorous and omnicompetent reviewer, for the New York Times and a raft of other publications. He was also a dedicated man of...