The Last European
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European By Stefan Zweig. Viking Press, 1943 (English Translation). Reviewed by John P. Rossi. On February 23, 1942, while Axis forces were triumphing everywhere—the Japanese overrunning the Philippines, the British withdrawing...
A “Sputnik Moment” for Civics
A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America’s Civic Education Crisis By Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Davenport. Republic Book Publishers, 2024. Hardcover, 250 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Last year’s dismal eighth grade scores on the history and civics exams...
Editors’ Summer Reading
Summer is well underway. So is our summer reading. Speaking of which—what are we reading? Luke C. Sheahan, Editor I like to divide my summer reading between works of imagination, those for sharpening the saw, and ones read for professional reasons, either scholarly...
The Dublin Fog: In the Footsteps of the Irish Saints
St. Patrick and His World By Mike Aquilina. Scepter, 2024. Paperback, 144 pages, $15.95. Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity By Connie Marshner. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Ryan...
"The first question, and perhaps the most pressing one when reviewing a book by @McCormickProf, is this: Even in the comparatively small world of intellectual conservatism, is there anything George isn’t doing?" - R. McKay Stangler in @ubookman
"Nonetheless, admittedly indirect evidence has been put forth, evidence which at least suggests that Hoover might have been inadvertently onto something when he successfully proposed replacing the notion of a relatively quick “panic” with something more drawn out, maybe even