In my review of Tyler Cowen's The Complacent Class, I wrote: Disappointingly, in light of the problems caused by lack of tolls, Cowen cites that highway system as a big success.

Stephen Kotkin, John P. Birkelund Professor in History and International Affairs at Princeton University and a research scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has won for Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (Penguin Press), a history of the world during the build-up to its most fateful hour, from the vantage point of Stalin’s seat of power.

Hoover Institution fellow Victor Davis Hanson discusses the troubling developments that have become a part of present-day presidential politics, the election and agenda of President Trump, and our cultural decline.

In George Orwell’s “1984,” the telescreen is the primary tool of totalitarian surveillance. “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen . . . To wear an improper expression on your face . . . was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: FACECRIME, it was called.”