A Time for Restoration
Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton By Daniel J. Mahoney. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 160 pages, $20.00 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The prolific author and scholar Daniel J. Mahoney has penned...
Reading as a Spiritual Practice
Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice By Jessica Hooten Wilson. Brazos Press, 2023. Hardcover, 208 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by James E. Hartley. “Until very recent years, civilized folk took it for granted that literature exists to form the...
U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer
No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers By Robert Lighthizer. Broadside Books, 2023. Hardcover, 384 pages, $32.00. Review by Frank Filocomo. Ever since the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump in 2016, the issue of...
Making Sense of Libertarianism
The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism By Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardback, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Alexander William Salter. There are many books that explain...
For America250, @lsheahan enters the fray:
What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."