Who’s the Furious One?
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right By Laura K. Field. Princeton University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book could have been titled in the singular, as in “furious mind,” since it is more than an occasional...
A New Introduction to the Austrian School
Austrian Economics: An Introduction By Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall. Polity, 2026. Paperback, 224 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall have written an excellent book, perhaps the second-best introduction to...
After Mansfield
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control: The History of Modern Political Philosophy By Harvey C. Mansfield. Harvard University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 336 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. There is a critical dividing line in contemporary academia. It is not a...
How Charlotte Brontë Became Charlotte Brontë
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë: A New Life By Graham Watson. Pegasus, 2025. Hardcover, 288 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Today, everyone knows Charlotte Brontë as the author of Jane Eyre. That wasn’t always the case. During her own lifetime, she had...
"A more than occasional glutton for punishment, Field dips into and out of conservative conferences, the better to enable herself to assert herself into this story. No doubt those on the left will be mostly pleased by what they read in these pages, while those on the right will
[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of