The Social Philosophers: A Reading for the Present
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Lucía Vallejo Rodríguez. On June 3, 1973, in a...
A Sociology of the Permanent Things: Nisbet’s Tocquevillian Philosophy
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Academia is hardly considered a...
Natural Law and the Need for Moral Clarity
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by Josh Herring. At the 2025 Academy of Philosophy and Letters meeting, Jason Jewell...
Moral Realism Over and Against Contingent Pluralism
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hopeful Realism is a laudable collaboration among three political...
History on Improper Principles
Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism By Allan J. Lichtman. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 376 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. For a decade now, the American Left has utterly failed to understand the forces behind...
Man’s Exposed Condition in a World of Severe Conflict
Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946-1953 Czeslaw Milosz. Ecco, 2025. Hardcover, 160 pages, $28. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. When Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980, he was introduced as a writer “who with uncompromising clearsightedness voices...
Revisiting Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography. By Tom Arnold-Forster. Princeton University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 368 pages, $35. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. Immersed as he must have been in the papers, columns, and books of Walter Lippmann, intellectual...
Family Homes and Drive-in Churches
Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America By Stephen M. Koeth, CSC. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Paperback, 328 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jacob Akey. This September, the cardinal archbishop of New York unveiled a...
William F. Buckley Jr.: Literary Figure
By Bill Meehan. As his centennial year comes to a close, I’d like to advocate for a useful way to look back on the life and work of William F. Buckley Jr. Known mostly for his television show Firing Line and his journal of opinion National Review, the American public...
A Christmas Carol is great literature. Ghosts are a must for Christmas.