On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method by Niels Hemmingsen. Translated and edited by E. J. Hutchinson with an introduction by E. J. Hutchinson and Korey D. Maas. CLP Academic, 2018. Hardcover, 252 pages, $30. Reviewed by W. Bradford Littlejohn If I...
John Selden and the Western Political Tradition by Ofir Haivry. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Hardcover, 518 pages, $100. W. BRADFORD LITTLEJOHN Asenior scholar once quipped to me when I was weighing topics for my doctoral work: “the goal of a historical doctoral...
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. A Critical Edition with Modern Spelling by Richard Hooker, edited by Arthur Stephen McGrade. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Three volumes. Hardcover, 1100 pages, $420. If asked “Which thinker exerted the greatest influence...
“The Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.