Garrett Adelstein has only played poker a mere handful of times since the infamous J-4 hand played on the Hustler Casino Live stream in September 2022. And, surprisingly, he seems to have few, if any, regrets. Walking away would once have been unthinkable for a player who thrived on the big pots and even bigger
Eric and Eliot discuss the week’s jackassery, including the administration’s stripping former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall (author of Lethal Autonomy: The Future of Warfare Whether We Like It or Not) of his security clearance for innocuous comments about Trump’s new Qatari-donated Air Force One. They then discuss the irresponsibility of Trump’s using that aircraft to
Every generation of military leaders confronts technologies that promise to transform warfare. Some do. Others prove less revolutionary than their advocates predict. The more important question, however, is rarely whether a technology works. It is whether we are asking the right strategic questions before reorganizing military power around it. Frank Kendall’s Lethal Autonomy: The Future
We met author Michael J. Norton at East Hampton Library’s Authors Night on Aug. 8, where he was signing his popular book, The S@#t I’ve Heard at Yoga. A woman at the book fair bought 16 copies for her friends! We thought it would be fun for Michael to write about “The S@#t I’ve Heard
Icefall, the first collaboration between veteran thriller author Jon Land and newcomer Michael Newman, is a winner on every level. When a novel is billed as a cross between Alien and The Avengers, my attention is officially grabbed. I was not disappointed. The prologue is set 1,500 years ago in the Veyrion. This is where
A Patriot For Ivanov by C.L. McGinnis was selected by Post and Courier for their South Carolina books summer reading list. Click here to see the list. Click here to learn more about the book.
When its comes to modern stories involving spies and espionage during World War II, there are a few annoyances that audiences have no choice but to expect and accept: a diverse, ahistorical cast of characters; amoral, superficial protagonists who are superlatively competent and devoid of any human attachments; paper-thin antagonists who are irredeemably evil; and
Surely one of the most amazing aspects of American fascination with the Second World War is the sheer amount of popular content we have created about it. There are at least 700, if not over 1,000 Hollywood films about the war, depending on what you count (and probably more than 1,300 globally). There are somewhere
In an article for The Dispatch, Joseph O. Chapa writes: The emergence of artificial intelligence creates new possibilities for fighting wars—faster decision speed and decreased risk to human operators—but also creates challenges. The whole field of AI ethics was spawned from the unintended consequences that statistical AI systems can produce. The same kinds of errors
The National Review has covered an excerpt adapted from Bing West’s book Cat 5: The 2033 War. Click here to read the full article. Click here to learn more about the book.
Mamie Van Doren isn’t done spilling secrets. The actress and sex symbol has written a new memoir, You Thought I Was Dead, in which she lays bare her decades-long career in showbiz. The 95-year-old is also the subject of a new documentary about her life that’s in production. In her latest tell-all, the star addresses
As January invites reflection and reinvention, Michael J. Norton offers a refreshingly honest take on what real change actually looks like. In his latest book, The S@#t I’ve Heard at Yoga (What I Learned in Downward Dog), the brand strategist–turned-author distills overheard studio wisdom into witty, grounding insights on anxiety, ambition, and emotional reset. Splitting his
Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, in his speech to 800 assembled generals, admirals and senior enlisted at Quantico, Va., on Sept. 30, 2025, quoted Eugene Sledge from his timeless classic With The Old Breed published in 1981. In his World War II memoir, Sledge wrote, “War is brutish. Inglorious and a terrible waste. Combat leaves
Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, of the ’90s rock duo Nelson, discuss their new memoir, What Happened to Your Hair? Click here to watch the video. Click here to learn more about the book.
The brothers from the band Nelson — the sons of rock ’n’ roll icon Ricky Nelson and the grandchildren of TV greats Ozzie and Harriet Nelson — tell us they helped keep fellow screen scion Drew Barrymore safe from the worst of a Hollywood childhood. Twins Gunnar and Matthew Nelson — who have a new
Camouflage, by Heather Sweeney, has made Southern Living’s 7 Best New Books to Read in December list. Click here to see the full list. Click here to learn more about the book.
35 years after the immense success of their debut album, the Nelson twins are ready to tell their story in their new memoir, What Happened to Your Hair?, which arrives Dec. 16 via Permuted Press. In an exclusive excerpt shared with Billboard, Matthew details from his point of view a planned in-store appearance at Los
Business Insider has published an adapted excerpt from Heather Sweeney’s upcoming book, Camouflage: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage. If military spouses could compile a list of things not to say to a military spouse, one of those taboo sentences would be “You knew what you were getting into.” It’s impossible to
DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn named Peacemaker‘s season two finale “Full Nelson” for the craziest possible reason: He recruited the actual band Nelson — ultra-blonde twin brothers Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, who reigned over MTV in 1990 with the Number One hit “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection” — to perform onscreen during the
Many may not know that the classic WWII memoir, With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge had A LOT of material that was cut out for the final edit. So you can only imagine how exciting it was to hear that his son, Henry Sledge, was digging back into his father’s original manuscript for a
In a review of Tom Young’s latest book, The Mapmaker, Lawrence De Maria writes: In high school, I was assigned a book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French author and pilot. I can’t remember its title, but I recall liking it immensely. I mention this because St. Ex, as he is called in The Mapmaker, is
Real Clear Defense posted an excerpt from Forged in Chaos: A Warrior’s Origin Story by Tyler Grey and Lauren Ingeldi. Read the excerpt here. Learn more about the book here.
“This might make people uncomfortable, but I’d rather be transparent about being calculated instead of hiding behind fake laughs and social chess,” Kazemi tells PAPER. “People know when I’m at their dinner table, I’m here to collaborate and get shit done.” His first time in New York last month landed him a spot on Page
Owen Pataki’s Smoke in the Cypress lands at #13 on the Bestsellers list at Southern California’s independent bookstores! See the full list here. Learn more about the book here.
“Phil Larimore was discharged at 22 as a ‘highly decorated cripple.‘ Fifty years later, his legacy earned him a place beside Eisenhower and Audie Murphy” writes his son and author, Walt Larimore, in a recent piece for The Blaze. “You’ve probably never heard of Phil Larimore — a teenage hero of World War II whose