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"Spielberg was the only major director to rise out of the Movie of the Week factory. So there’s something kind of touching about Disclosure Day’s evocation of the junk he had to helm to get his career going." @jpodhoretz reviews Disclosure Day! #WeekendBeacon
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"As Spitz shows, Jagger and Richards have survived in the manner of rival empires or married couples, by dividing the terrain and sniping across the border. Jagger takes care of business, and Richards does the riffs." @DrDominicGreen reviews The Rolling Stones bio #WeekendBeacon
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May 26
There isn't one false note in @jpodhoretz's review of Tuner, which he wrote in the key of A... Plus! The movie strikes some powerful chords and has a pitch perfect ending. #WeekendBeacon
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May 20
"Even the most avid political enthusiast will likely have forgotten—under the weight of sheer frequency—at least one example of violence that should be once-in-a-generation, but is now more once-in-an-afternoon." @ighaworth reviews Noah Rothman's Blood & Progress #WeekendBeacon
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May 14
"It is chucklesome to consider current reactions to serving up what the kids once downed with relish, as relayed in the book’s pre-20th century chapters: codfish cakes, turnips raw and mashed, jellied pork brain, herring, beef tea." @BSBenwick reviews "Picky" #WeekendBeacon
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May 13
"After Japan’s enormously successful opening drive following Pearl Harbor, Tojo projected the United States could not mount a counterattack before the fall of 1944." Military historian Richard B. Frank reviews Peter Mauch's new biography of Tojo. #WeekendBeacon
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Apr 24
"In the last 58 years, the Philadelphia 76ers have won exactly one NBA Championship. That was in 1983, when two forces of nature—center Moses Malone and small forward Julius Erving—converged..." Patrick Parr reviews Luke Epplin's Moses and the Doctor #WeekendBeacon
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Mar 25
Since it's Opening Day, I'm reupping this review from my colleague and sports junkie @zach_kessel of Jane Leavy's ‘Make Me Commissioner: I Know What's Wrong with Baseball and How to Fix It.' Play ball! #WeekendBeacon
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Mar 19
"There's no doubt where [Arab states' and Communist bloc] sympathies reposed: Anything that targeted Israel or Jews was in principle worthy, as was anything that could weaken Western Europe and the United States." @todlindberg reviews The Revolutionists #WeekendBeacon
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Mar 11
"Is Newsom having us believe that he’s the Democratic version of JD Vance? Not exactly. Unlike Vance, Newsom didn’t grow up in hardscrabble Appalachia. San Francisco and neighboring Marin County were his nesting grounds." @billwhalenCA reviews Young Man in a Hurry #WeekendBeacon
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"She also loved champagne but not the bubbles, so she stirred them out of her glass with a 'special ivory swizzle stick.' The reader begins to understand why the French invented the guillotine." #WeekendBeacon freebeacon.com/culture/alway…
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I bet Prince Andrew is glad the media aren't focused on him anymore—although @DrDominicGreen does review The Royal Insider! Plus @CharlesFLehman breaks down a major study of criminal behavior & @michaelmrosen reviews Schott's Significa. #WeekendBeacon
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Jan 20
"The 'anticulture' the Machine creates, Kingsnorth argues, seeks to replace the 'Four Ps' of humanity—Past, People, Place, and Prayer—with the 'Four Ss' of its own ideology: Science, The Self, Sex, and The Screen." #WeekendBeacon freebeacon.com/culture/witne…
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22 Dec 2025
With all the news last week, you may have missed James Piereson's wonderful review of One Man's Freedom: Goldwater, King, and the Struggle over an American Ideal. Do check it out. #WeekendBeacon
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20 Nov 2025
"The Deficit Delusion is a delightfully combative and consistently surprising read, but it’s unlikely to change minds. Unfortunately, this deficit hawk came away still thinking we should get the debt under control and fix the entitlement system." Read @RAVerBruggen's review #WeekendBeacon
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"The Peloponnesian War is not ... an easy read. It wasn't in its Greek original, and it is hard to render it into flowing English without sacrificing the sometimes-cranky character of the original. Robin Waterfield has struck a nice balance." Read @barrystrauss's debut review! #WeekendBeacon
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