Will the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy call it a day?
Obituaries are flooding in for Barbara Bush, the matriarch who saw both her husband and her son assume the presidency. Bush passed on yesterday at the age of ninety-two. Regardless of one’s… Read more »
Cowards and boring people want to ban books on magic from schools
The market research firm YouGov recently conducted a poll on the subject of “Book Banning.” They asked a thousand respondents wether or not certain types of books (categorized by content and… Read more »
Utah Republican leader resigns over controversial views on equal pay
Last week, while Melville House author Jessa Crispin trenchantly questioned whether women’s increasing representation in the corporate world has done much to advance broader economic equality, Republicans in Wascatch County, Utah, were debating a… Read more »
Should President Obama and the Iran negotiators have read Trump: The Art of the Deal?
Donald Trump, the large ego-filled balloon currently outpolling his fellow 2016 Republican presidential candidates, is a big fan of books. Specifically, books coauthored by Donald Trump. Specifically, one particular book… Read more »
1995 book reveals that Jeb Bush is a fan of shame
Books by politicians usually have two things in common: 1) they have sublimely generic titles and 2) they don’t tend to be very substantive. This is sensible. After all, the… Read more »
Boring headlines on the internet are bad. Unlike boring book titles, which are good.
There are only so many ways to title an article, an essay, or a blog post, and most of those ways are very boring. Indeed, in 2015, titles are more… Read more »
Inside the House Republican book club
Paul S. Atkins doesn’t like book clubs because they’re too exclusive. He said as much in the testimony he gave in May to the House Financial Services Committee, where he argued… Read more »