Joseph Epstein

Joseph Epstein is an essayist and short story writer. He is the author of Fred Astaire (Yale University Press) and served as contributing editor for the Weekly Standard.

Articles by Joseph Epstein

The Moses of His Day

How Theodor Herzl became the unlikely father of Zionism.

War for the West

What if the Persians had defeated the Greeks?

A Philosophe in Full

Denis Diderot's Enlightenment.

The Menace of Political Correctness

The Good Intentions Paving Company strikes again.

Ruined by His Own Glory

The twists and turns of Alcibiades' life.

The Music of the Grand American Show

Reading H.L. Mencken’s The American Language.

Hail, Mommsen

A German historian's tribute to Rome.

Frivolous, Empty, and Perfectly Delightful

P.G. Wodehouse's world.

How to Talk Like a Politician

American political rhetoric's decline.

University of Chicago Days

Knowledge is good.

White Mischief

A portrait of the author as a young man.

A Thinker, I Suppose

Does Isaiah Berlin still matter?

From Tom to T.S.

A review of Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford.

As American as Humble Pie

Joseph Epstein reviews David Bobb's new book on humility.

My Fair Language

A review of The Language Wars: A History of Proper English, by Henry Hitchings

Against the Virtual Life

A review of Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, by Mark Helprin

Claremont Review of Books

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