By Steve Sailer
07/13/2022
From my new book review in Taki’s Magazine:
The Right Read
Steve SailerJuly 13, 2022
Curiously, many nonfiction books these days are published without an index, despite Microsoft Word providing indexing. My guess is that because serious new books mostly intrigue other writers hoping to find their names mentioned in the text, publishers fear that an index would just let them be disappointed while standing in the bookstore aisle, and then they’d put the book back on the shelf unbought. (A confession: I’ve done that. A lot.)
Fortunately, Matthew Continetti’s new history of the interplay of conservative little magazine pundits and presidential candidates going back to the Harding administration, The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism, has an excellent index.
So, indeed, I immediately looked up my own name, and found myself appearing twice, with Continetti’s descriptions of my work being fair-minded.
In Continetti’s telling, the good guys are, unsurprisingly, the “elitists,” such as his in-laws, the Kristols and Himmelfarbs. The bad guys are the “populists.” But, he admits, the latter have this annoying habit of often turning out to be more empirically right about the issues than their betters.
Read the whole thing there.
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