Beauty Is the Friendly Voice of God
Unearthly Beauty: The Aesthetics of St John Henry Newman by Guy Nicholls. Gracewing, 2019. Hardcover, 352 pages, $36. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl It’s good to note at the beginning here that the Rev. Dr. Guy Nicholls is a priest at the Birmingham Oratory and...
Making Tories and Whigs
The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 350 pages, $100. Reviewed by John G. Grove The “long” eighteenth century has proven to be one of the most fertile...
Spengler, Toynbee, Burnham, and the Decline of the West
by Francis P. Sempa In the United States, public schools are seeking to discredit the founding principles of our nation. In our major cities, rioting, looting, and crime go unpunished and in some cases are applauded by civil authorities. Left-wing district attorneys...
Inside the Revolutionary Mind
Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny. by Donald T. Crichlow. Regnery, 2021. Hardcover, 206 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips “These monsters wore the masks of liberators, hiding the malevolence of hubris that comes when men...
"A more than occasional glutton for punishment, Field dips into and out of conservative conferences, the better to enable herself to assert herself into this story. No doubt those on the left will be mostly pleased by what they read in these pages, while those on the right will
[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of