David Randall

November 20, 2025

Nature's Loveliness, Overdone

David Randall assesses Kim Stanley Robinson’s The High Sierra: A Love Story and finds the book plodding yet overwrought in its love of nature absent a human element.

November 20, 2025

Woke: The Elite Protection Racket

David Randall

David Randall takes on the widely discussed We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi,which despite its flaws offers a powerful indictment of......

November 20, 2025

Science Reform Starts with the Feds

David Randall

David Randall makes his third appearance with an evaluation of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress, a book that accuses the EPA and env......

December 12, 2024

Is Western Civilization Real?

David Randall

David Randall dissects Josephine Crawley Quinn’s How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History, the latest scholarly effort to offshore the West’s achievements to the rest of the world......

December 12, 2024

All Is Ok with the Universities

David Randall

David Randall lambasts Michael S. Roth for using The Student: A Short History to give us a “complacent and tranquilizing reassurance that nothing has gone wrong” in American higher educati......

September 18, 2024

Missives from Two College Presidents

David Randall

NAS research director David Randall looks at memoirs by two former presidents of elite universities, only to find self-congratulatory and unintended exposes of how these “confidence men,”......

September 18, 2024

Should Liberals Side With Conservatives against Woke?

David Randall

Randall also leads us through a reading of Eric Kaufmann’s The Third Awokening, perhaps the most important treatment of the rise of woke ideology. Where Richard Hanania finds wokeism gestat......

October 23, 2023