Mark Twain Revisited

Mark Twain Revisited

Mark Twain  By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025.  Hardcover, 1,200 pages, $45. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Let us stipulate at the outset that Ron Chernow has indeed covered the Twain waterfront in this massive volume. How could he not? Twain appears “Afloat” in Part...
Restocking Conservatives’ Bookshelves

Restocking Conservatives’ Bookshelves

13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read) By Christopher J. Scalia. Regnery, 2025. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Earlier this summer, The New York Times published yet another jeremiad on fiction-reading men going the way...
Educational Counterrevolution 

Educational Counterrevolution 

Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation By Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin. Broadside, 2022. Hardcover, 288 pages, $32. Reviewed by John Kainer. Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps most famous for the words he has a madman speak in his book, The...
The Moral Imagination of Jane Austen

The Moral Imagination of Jane Austen

The Moral Imagination of Jane Austen Leta Sundet, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of English at Hillsdale College Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm ETDates:  November 25; December 2, 9, and 16Faculty: Dr. Leta Sundet Location: OnlineTuition: $100 (free for students, teachers,...
Political Economy Before Adam Smith

Political Economy Before Adam Smith

Early English Tracts on Commerce Edited by John Ramsay McCulloch. CL Press, 2024.  Paperback, 693 pages, $19.50. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) doesn’t roll off the zealous tongues of free marketeers as smoothly as Adam Smith, but he...