In the course of his illustrious career, Michael Novak has written several prize-winning books on theology and philosophy. In On Two Wings he has created a profound mediation on American history, and on human nature and destiny as well.

Why do some companies rally after competitive disasters? Why do some individuals rebound after personal defeats? Winning after losing big is hard. Stearns’ refreshing approach stimulates recovery by provoking you and your enterprise to reinvigorate your thinking and your response to losing.

William McGowan opens the door to the newsrooms at USA Today, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other pillars of the “mainstream press” in this carefully researched investigation of how the quest for “diversity” has affected American journalism.

In this well researched and carefully argued book, David Horowitz traces the origins of the reparations movement. He examines the case made by its advocates and concludes that it is “morally questionable and racially incendiary.”

At the heart of The Unsleeping Eye is a provocative narrative about the role of the secret police in the modern totalitarian state. Joseph Fouche, Napoleon’s minister of police, made surveillance and informing into an art form (“Where there are three,” Fouche once said, “I always have one listening”) and coupled this surveillance with propaganda techniques that made it doubly effective. 

Mark Judge has written a book that is at once a touching memoir of his grandfather, star first baseman for the Old Washington Senators; a history of baseball in its golden age and an exciting account of the Senators’ 1924 World Series victory.

Kristol and Kaplan lay out a detailed rationale for action against Iraq. But to understand why we must fight Saddam, the authors assert, it is necessary to go beyond the details of his weapons of mass destruction, his past genocidal actions against Iran and his own people, and the U.N. resolutions he has ignored.

On a hot July dawn in 1853, a gunfight took place on the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. When the smoke cleared, Joaquin Murrieta, one of the most notorious bandits of the Gold Rush lay dead. Soon his severed head was traveling around the new state of California in a pickling jar.

Murders on the Nile takes us into a murky underworld of Egyptian exiles, Palestinian and Iranian militants, and Arabs waging jihad in Afghanistan—all of them joined together by a dream of violence, freedom and vengeance. By the beginning of the twenty first century, these Islamist zealots had filled their ranks with holy men and hijackers, charismatic preachers and street thugs.  Their yearning for the paradise of an imagined past had become a conspiracy found only along the Nile but ultimately along the Hudson as well.

In The Hillary Trap, journalist and media personality Laura Ingraham turns a razor sharp eye on this view of Hillary and questions her status as a metaphor for the modern empowered woman. Ingraham suggests that if anything, Hillary’s mix of opportunism, acquiescence, and dependency has set women back rather than leading them forward. This is the Hillary Trap.

In addition to shedding light on the machinations of the Castro government, it is also a compelling story of a crisis in a revolutionary faith. In the Pirate’s Den is the result of that painful introspection, a page turning chronicle of a remarkable journey into and out of the Cuban revolution.

Western societies are divided more clearly than ever before into the haves and the have-nots, the needy and the greedy. In addition, neoliberal doctrines have been reshaped into more effective instruments of oppression and domination. Through a fascinating dialogue with long-time collaborator and fellow activist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explores this growing economic and social crisis, arguing that it is now acceptable political discourse to discuss class warfare.

Nearly seventy years ago, Edith Hamilton published The Greek Way, a book that educated two generations of readers about the debt we owe the handful of city-states that developed “the spirit of the West” some 2500 years ago. Bruce Thornton’s Greek Ways is for our time what Hamilton’s book was for a prior era: a classic inquiry holding up a mirror to Greek culture in which we can see ourselves.

Completing this tour de force of investigative reporting and analysis, Andrew Peyton Thomas conducted exclusive interviews with Justice Antonin Scalia, former President George Bush, and other Washington insiders (along with many of Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court clerks) in re-creating his years on the Court.  A former prosecutor and trial lawyer himself, Andrew Peyton Thomas offers an analysis of Justice Thomas’ jurisprudence that dispels the myth that he has merely followed the conservative party line in his decisions.

Fulton J. Sheen may someday become a saint. In the meantime, Thomas C. Reeves has shown us the man. America’s Bishop is a fascinating biography and a brilliant social history of the Catholic Church during the American Century.