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'Collapsed Catholic' Bill Keller Praises Book Critical of Church for Cover of Sunday Book Review

Executive Editor Bill Keller on "Absolute Monarchs A History of the Papacy": "We get a disheartening chapter on Pius XI and Pius XII, whose fear of Communism (along with the church's long streak ...

Times Reviews What People Are Saying About Coulter's Book Cover...But What About the Book?

The Times Book Review goes into detail about criticism of the black cover of "Demonic," Ann Coulter's latest New York Times bestseller. But will the paper deign to review what's inside? It rarely ...

William McGowan's 'Gray Lady Down': A Devastating Critique of the New York Times

Author McGowan is not a boycotter or enemy of the Times, but longs for a much better version of the Times than is being produced by the current regime. His book "Gray Lady Down" comes loaded with ...

NYT Style Mag 'T': No to the 'Cult of the Virgin Mary,' Yes to Ground Zero Imam

Holly Brubach gets seriously anti-Catholic in "T," the Times style magazine: "[Marina] Warner's scholarly survey of the shape-shifting that Mary has undergone over the past two millennia ...

Times Editor Feebly Tries to Explain Away Success of Conservative Books on NBC's Today Show

During a Today show report about how well books written by the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are selling, the Times' Jenny Schuessler rationalized that the only reason conservative books ...

Editor Sam Tanenhaus 'Weasels' Out of Reviewing Book Critical of Paper

Author William McGowan and Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus had a revealing email exchange recently over the prospects of the New York Times reviewing McGowan's new book "Gray Lady Down ...

In Confrontations With Muslim World, Neil MacFarquhar Again Blames U.S. First

Strained relations with the Muslim world? Blame the United States, says UN Bureau Chief Neil MacFarquhar: "The problem, which 'Arab Voices' persuasively illustrates, is that Americans tend to ...

Times Critic and Author William McGowan Blasts Paper's 'Propagandizing'

William McGowan, Times critic and author of the new book Gray Lady Down, argues that by September 11, 2001, the Times had already established itself as the standard-bearer for "counter-cultural ...

'Obscure Texts By Long-Dead Writers'...Like Nobel-Prize Winning Economist Friedrich Hayek?

Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike on the Tea Party canon, including Friedrich Hayek, a Nobel Prize Winner in Economics in 1974 who died in 1992: "But when it comes to ideology, it has reached back ...

Huffington Post Worries About Book Banning

To hear HuffPo and NYTimes, opponents of intellectual freedom lurk on every school board.
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