Conservative Crack-up, Republican Rout?

by | Nov 6, 2016

Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism by George Hawley. University Press of Kansas, 2016. Hardcover, 376 pages, $35.George Hawley has written a competent, respectable book on conflicts within America’s right wing concerning what is and is not acceptable...

On the Rise of the Enlightenment

by | Nov 6, 2016

A conversation with Anthony GottliebWestern philosophy is now two and a half millennia old. But a great deal of it arose in just two staccato bursts, lasting 150 years each. In a book he published in 2000 called The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb explained the...

The Immigrants from Hell

by | Nov 4, 2016

German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era by Monique Laney. Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover, 320 pages, $35.On April 11, 1945, just short of a month before VE-day and the end of the conflict in Europe, a...

A Regionalist Tragedy

by | Oct 30, 2016

Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County. by Larry Lockridge. Indiana University Press, 1994, 2014. Paperback, 544 pages, $25. I started with the obituary. It ran on the front page. Of the New York Times. Yes, the...

American Cassandra

by | Oct 30, 2016

American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan by Greg Weiner. University Press of Kansas, 2015. Hardcover, 189 pages, $30.In a brief moment before the terrorist attacks of September 11, there was the glimmering of an argument for government...