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Grieder does Texas for progressives

In her new book, “Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas,” the quality of author Erica Grieder’s narrative inverts the progress of Texas. Texas began as an unpromising territory peopled by opportunists and grew to become “one of America’s genuine powerhouses.” But Grieder’s book unfolds in the...

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Book review: ‘What to Expect When No One’s Expecting’

Western civilization will collapse within our lifetimes and our children will scratch out a barren existence in its ashes. Despite the title, Jonathan Last promises to avoid selling doom in his citation-laden new book “What To Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster.” Unfortunately, regardless of whether he wants to make money off...