Free Beacon Culture

Harvard’s Slide into Stupidity

REVIEW: ‘Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary that Fell on Deaf Ears’ by Harvey C. Mansfield

Royally Screwed

REVIEW: ‘Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor’ by Hugo Vickers

When Power Suits and Padded Shoulders Ruled

REVIEW: ‘Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York’ by Dylan Gottlieb

No Bridge Was Too Far for Sonny Rollins

A Return to Proper History

REVIEW: 'The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe' by Walter A. McDougall

The Empathy Justice

REVIEW: ‘Revenge for the Sixties: Sam Alito and the Triumph of the Conservative Legal Movement’ by Peter S. Canellos

What’s the Deal With Iran?

US diplomacy will need a dose of reality

REVIEW: ‘Tuner’

The best movie of the year so far

American Odyssey

REVIEW: ‘This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark’ by Craig Fehrman

Less Choice, More Happiness

REVIEW: 'Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better' by David Epstein