Featured Reviews

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) - Derrick A. Bell, Jr  (Grade:B+)

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Christmas at Thompson Hall (1877) - Anthony Trollope  (Grade:A-)

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Hollow (short story) (1982) - Breece D'J Pancake  (Grade:B)

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A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation and Tradition (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) (2021) - Ferenc Horcher  (Grade:A-)

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

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F1; The Movie (2025) - Joseph Kosinski  (Grade:A+)

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Phantom Thread (2017) - Paul Thomas Anderson  (Grade:A-)

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Brothers Judd Daily

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Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was born on January 2, 1920. Read Orrin's review of The Foundation Trilogy (Grade: A-)

J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was born in Washington, DC on January 1, 1895.

E.M. [Edward Morgan] Forster (1879-1970) was born in London, ENG on January 1, 1879. Read Orrin's reviews of A Passage to India (1924)(Grade: B) and Aspects of the Novel (1927)(Grade: A-)

Shelby Steele (1946-) was born on January 1, 1946. Read Orrin's review of The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (1990)

J.D. [Jerome David] Salinger (1919-) was born in New York, NY on January 1, 1919. Read Orrin's reviews of The Catcher in the Rye (1951)(Grade: A+) and Franny and Zooey (1961)(Grade: A+)

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.-43 BC) was born at Arpinum on January 3, 106 B.C.

J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was born in Washington, DC on January 1, 1895.

Happy Birthday to Michael Walter, December 31

Nicholas Sparks was born December 31, 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska. Read Orrin's review of The Notebook (1996) (Nicholas Sparks 1965-)

Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) was born in Raleigh, NC on December 29, 1808.

William Gaddis (1922-1998), perhaps the greatest unread author of the past half century, was born in New York, NY on December 29, 1922. His masterpiece, The Recognitions, is a little forbidding--it even has an online readers guide: A READER'S GUIDE TO WILLIAM GADDIS'S The Recognitions (Steven Moore). But Brothers Judd heartily recommends his National Book Award winning A Frolic of His Own.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), 1907 Nobel Laureate, was born in Bombay, India on December 30, 1865. Read Orrin's reviews of Kim (1901) (Grade: A), Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling (Grade: A+), and The Jungle Books (1894) (Grade: A)

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was born in Staunton, VA on December 28, 1856. He had the two worst traits a President of the United States can have: he was naive and he was a hater.

Earl "Fatha" Hines (1903-83) was born in Duquesne, PA on December 28, 1903. Dryfoos recommends his seminal collaboration with Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Sevens

Charles Portis (1933-) was born in El Dorado, AR on December 28, 1933. Read Orrin's review of True Grit (1968)

Henry Miller (1891-1980) was born in New York, NY on December 26, 1891. Read Orrin's review of Tropic of Cancer (1934)(Grade: F)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771) was born in London, ENG on December 26, 1716. His greatest poem and one of the best English poems ever is Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)

Jimmy Buffett (1946-) was born in Pascogoula, MS on December 25, 1946.

Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) was born in New York, NY on December 25, 1899. Brothers Judd particularly recommends The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Maltese Falcon (1941) and The Big Sleep (1946).

Cab Calloway (1907-94) was born in Rochester, NY on December 25, 1907. Brothers Judd recommends Are You Hep to the Jive?