OVERRATED
November 2008
Jeremy Jennings dissects the work of the fashionable left-wing philosopher, who believes that Lenin, Stalin and Mao were too soft
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October 2008
Barack Obama's running mate is vastly experienced in getting foreign policy decisions wrong
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September 2008
Roger Kimball blames the revered advocate of 'experiments in living' for our inability to escape from the quagmire of moral nihilism
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August 2008
Ibn Warraq indicts the Palestinian author of Orientalism for presenting the West as villains and Muslims as victims
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