Today's conservatives support the idea of limited government, but they have increased government's size and power to new heights. They believe in balanced budgets, but they have boosted government spending, debt, and pork to record levels. They believe in national security but launched a reckless, i[...]
no subject has divided contemporary America more bitterly than homosexuality. Addressing the full range of the debate in this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of The New Republic, restores both reason and humanity to the discussion over how a predominantly heterosexual society [...]
"Sullivan offers [a] profound, often beautiful appreciation of friendship. . . . [He can] fascinate us with the range and depth of his mind."--San Francisco Chronicle
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
"One of the great pleasures of this book lies in watching Sullivan's mind a[...]
"A sympathetic and illuminating portrait of a quintessential Englishman". (Ian Bradley). The author of "The Pirates of Penzance", "The Mikado", "H.M.S. Pinafore" and the other great Savoy libretti, W.S. Gilbert was witty, caustic and disrespectful, one of the celebrities of the late Victorian era. H[...]