Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic

Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic

Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law By Benjamin Clark. Lexington Books, 2024. Hardcover, 252 pages, $120.00. Reviewed by John G. Grove.  The debate over federal common law does not generally fire the imaginations...
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It

Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It

Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution  By Amy Coney Barrett. Sentinel, 2025.  Hardcover, 336 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by James V. F. Dickey. Listening to the Law reveals the personal and public-facing perspectives of Supreme Court Justice Amy...
One Man’s Journey to Faith

One Man’s Journey to Faith

Taking Religion Seriously  By Charles Murray.  Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 200 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. Taking Religion Seriously is a thoughtful, moving, and entertaining account of the author’s decades-long journey toward acceptance of...
Yearning and Collapsing

Yearning and Collapsing

Blue Walls Falling Down By Joshua Hren Angelico Press, 2024. Paperback, 436 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr.  Can love reconcile America’s partisan divide between left and right, between racially obsessed identity politics and radicalized nativist...
Our Lives in the Panopticon

Our Lives in the Panopticon

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control Jacob Siegel. Henry Holt and Co., 2026. Hardcover, 336 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Albert Norton, Jr. Just within the last year, Paul Kingsnorth published Against The Machine about the source of our increasing...