Deneen's "Why Liberalism Failed" was one of the first books I reviewed in my job, and so I was fascinated by Ezra's new interview, in which Deenen struggles to make what sounds a lot like moral panic seem intellectually coherent. nytimes.com/2022/05/13/opi… When pressed to name an actual liberal policy makes it impossible for him and his family to live the lives they want, he can't — and so as evidence he points to ... law review articles?

I reviewed "My War Criminal," by Jessica Stern, a book that recounts her 12 interviews with Radovan Karadzic. Stern's book is an abject failure, and I wanted to add a few words, because the moral quandaries raised by a book like this are enormous 1/x nytimes.com/2020/01/23/boo… To write a book about a perpetrator of genocide requires extraordinary moral fortitude *and* extraordinary writing skills. I don't think Stern wrote this book out of malevolence, or because she's a Karadzic sympathizer. After Op-Ed published an excerpt, she apologized. But... 2/x