American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time By Joshua Mitchell. Encounter, 2020/2022. Paperback, 312 pages, $20.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. Identity politics is one of the defining issues of our time. In American Awakening, Joshua...
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom By Robert Nisbet. Regnery/ISI Books, 2010 (originally published in 1953). Paperback, 330 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community is a book that endures....
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom By Robert Nisbet. Regnery/ISI Books, 2010 (originally published in 1953). Paperback, 330 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Bradley J. Birzer. 1953 was an annus mirabilis for the conservative movement....
Celebrating the Conservative Mind at 70 in Washington, D.C. On December 5, we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s landmark work, The Conservative Mind, a book that gave the conservative movement in America both a name and an awareness of our...
The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Introduction by Michael P. Federici. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Alan Cornett. The occasion of a thirtieth anniversary edition of Russell Kirk’s The Politics of Prudence spurs mixed...
"[Steely Dan} songs capture a certain temperamental #conservatism, equal parts cynicism towards the promise of a brighter tomorrow and yearning for a sense of social order long past, that feels right at home in our age of fractured shabbiness."