The Wall Street Journal

224 reviews · 2018–2026

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Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights 6 reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali Tunku Varadarajan
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism 9 reviews Benjamin M. Friedman David Skeel
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution 11 reviews James Oakes Adam Rowe
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die 9 reviews Steven Nadler Jeffrey Collins
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to Covid-19 5 reviews John Fabian Witt Adam J. White
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy 7 reviews Stephen Wertheim Paul Kennedy
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again 14 reviews Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Yuval Levin
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs 3 reviews Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz Maxwell Carter
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous 11 reviews Joseph Henrich Christopher Levenick
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy 12 reviews Wolfram Eilenberger Julian Baggini
Out of Time 3 reviews David Klass Tom Nolan
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World 4 reviews Toby Musgrave Christoph Irmscher
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy 9 reviews Stephanie Kelton John H. Cochrane
Dante's Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy 6 reviews Guy P. Raffa Dan Hofstadter
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes 12 reviews Zachary D Carter Benn Steil
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World 15 reviews Jonathan Bate Brad Leithauser
What Stars Are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 6 reviews Donovan Moore Marcia Bartusiak
Einstein in Bohemia 4 reviews Michael D Gordin Andrew Crumley
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life 8 reviews John Kaag Heller McAlpin
The Death of Jesus 24 reviews J. M Coetzee Sam Sacks
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear 4 reviews Patrick Boucheron Philip Delves Broughton
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 11 reviews Yuval Noah Harari Charles C. Mann
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution 5 reviews Jeremy Popkin Mark Molesky
Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness 7 reviews Philip Goff Julian Baggini
Great Society: A New History 8 reviews Amity Shlaes Michael Barone
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century 7 reviews Sarah Abrevaya Stein Benjamin Balint
The History of Philosophy 8 reviews A. C. Grayling Nicholas Stang
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution 4 reviews Myron Magnet Barton Swaim
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir 13 reviews Deirdre Bair Heller McAlpin
None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age 4 reviews Lawrence Cappello Adam J. White
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty 8 reviews Daron Acemoglu Joseph C. Sternberg
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 8 reviews Michael Lewis Brian M. Carney
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century 16 reviews Frank Dikötter Tunku Varadarajan
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life 8 reviews Ryan Patrick Hanley David J. Davis
The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town 8 reviews Edward Berenson David Margolick
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite 10 reviews Daniel Markovits Joseph Epstein
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English 7 reviews Jonathan Rée Joseph Epstein
Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896 5 reviews Charles Postel Fergus M. Bordewich
Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands 5 reviews John Clayton Gerard Helferich
The Adjunct Underclass: How America's Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission 6 reviews Herb Childress Barton Swaim
Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West 9 reviews John Taliaferro Andrew R. Graybill
The Body In Question 6 reviews Jill Ciment Sam Sacks
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition 5 reviews Patricia Churchland Andrew Stark
How the Classics Made Shakespeare 5 reviews Jonathan Bate Elizabeth Winkler
The Unnamable Present 5 reviews Roberto Calasso Dominic Green
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History 8 reviews Richard Evans Richard Aldous
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ 11 reviews Daniel Okrent Stephen Budiansky
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom 11 reviews Martin Hägglund Adam Kirsch
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 16 reviews Lawrence Wright Paul Elie
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 14 reviews Siddhartha Mukherjee Laura Landro
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