Rural America as It Really Is
Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America By Joanna Dee Das. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Hardcover, 272 pages, $27.50. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Over the last eighteen months, I have twice visited Branson, Missouri. Over the...
The Poet Watches Birds
Instructions for Waking By Jennifer A. Hartenburg. Kelsay Books, 2026. Paperback, 70 pages, $20. Reviewed by Matt Miller. I’m not much of a birdwatcher. We keep a few feeders, and I’m always pleased to spot a bald eagle, a pileated woodpecker, or a Baltimore oriole....
John Lukács: The Consciousness—and Conscience—of an Historian
Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past Harper & Row, 1968 The Remembered Past ISI Books (Intercollegiate Studies Institute), 2005 (922-page collected volume; distinct from the 1968 book) The Hitler of History Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 A Thread of Years Yale...
Continually Revising History
The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age. Eric Voegelin Studies Yearbook 4. Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer. Brill Fink, 2025. Hardcover, 473 pages, $155. Reviewed by Lee...
"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