Men Rode to Catraeth
The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen Translated by Gillian Clarke. Faber & Faber, 2021. Hardcover, 144 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David J. Davis. At the end of the sixth century, a Celtic British tribe known as the Gododdin met an army of invading Angles at the...
American Hegemony in Higher Education
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China By William C. Kirby. Harvard University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 504 pages, $37.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In September U.S. News & World Report released its much-resented but...
The Causes of Moral Agency
Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power By Ian V. Rowe. Templeton Press, 2022. Hardcover, 304 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rachel Ferguson. The debate over moral agency—whether it...
Resurrecting John Keats
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph By Lucasta Miller. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 368 pages, $32.50. Reviewed by Paul Krause. John Keats wrote to his brother on October 14, 1818, “I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.” Those prophetic...
"The things we love and are grateful for in our Western societies are under attack. We might very well lose them, and this realization is animating conservatives like Roberts to advocate for “offensive conservatism” before our fragile civilization is lost."
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