The Reading List is still on strike, pending your collective advice on whether to keep it or not. (The answer: Next week.) This week, however, let us commend to you a new book, just out in paperback from Vintage Books. Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing is an anthology edited and with an introduction by our very own David Brooks. It features 41 essays from the likes of Mark Helprin, Christopher Buckley, Paul A. Gigot, James Q. Wilson, William J. Bennett, and Robert Bartley. Readers of THE WEEKLY STANDARD will find a (suspicious) number of other familiar names in its pages as well: William Kristol, Fred Barnes (twice!), John Podhoretz, P.J. O’Rourke (twice!), David Frum, Andrew Ferguson (twice!), and Charles Krauthammer. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and all for just $ 13.
