Free Beacon Culture

He’s Crafty: How George Downing Kept His Head

REVIEW: ‘Cromwell's Spy: From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing’ by Dennis Sewell

No One Is Alone, Except Maybe Stephen Sondheim

REVIEW: ‘Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn’t Easy’ by Daniel Okrent

How to Handle Your Out-of-Control Ivy

REVIEW: ‘Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities’ by Elise Stefanik

From Desecration to Consecration

REVIEW: 'The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity' by Carl Trueman

Some Soviets Were Less Equal Than Others

REVIEW: 'The Penny is Gone: Meditations of a Soviet Jew' by Emil Bezverkhny

A Novel Way to Approach Death

REVIEW: ‘Departure(s): A Novel’ by Julian Barnes

The Fall and Rise of Bowie

REVIEW: ‘Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie’ by Alexander Larman

Letter to the Editor: Who's Censoring Whom?

Coups and Consequences

REVIEW: ‘Kennedy's Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent into Vietnam’ by Jack Cheevers

You’re Not a Monkey’s Uncle

REVIEW: ‘The Primate Myth: Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature’ by Jonathan Leaf