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...
Russell Kirk collection thus far arranged by date of original publication (Conservative Mind and Politics of Prudence are in my campus office).
Continuing in our celebration of the centenary of "Democracy and Leadership" by Irving Babbitt, reviewer Claes G. Ryn discusses the hostile reactions to Babbitt's views in his time.