Forgotten No More—Remembering M. Stanton Evans
M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom By Steven F. Hayward. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 400 pages, $33.99. Reviewed by James A. Davenport. Recently, I found myself working through a document that mentioned the name M. Stanton Evans. A colleague...
Indignity Human (and Poetic?)
Minor Indignities: A Novel. By Trevor Cribben Merrill. Wiseblood Books, 2020. Paperback, 233 pages, $16.00. Reviewed by Alex Taylor. Reading Trevor Cribben Merrill’s first novel, Minor Indignities, one finds a fictional analogue to William F. Buckley’s God and Man at...
Politics Between History and Eternity
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall. Harvard University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 352 pages, $49.95. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Sarah Shortall’s Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology...
James Burnham: The Partisan Review Years
By Francis P. Sempa. When James Burnham formally left the Socialist Workers Party in 1940 (intellectually, he had left it the year before), he did not immediately embrace the conservatism of his American Mercury, The Freeman, and National Review years. Burnham instead...
More than Regime Change, We Need a New Cosmological Vision