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...
G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth
Chesterton and the Philosophers Edited by Landon Loftin. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2026. Paperback, 222 pages, $28.00 Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Editor Landon Loftin has the temerity to agree and then disagree with Garry Wills, who had the temerity to declare that...
Reconsidering Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR: A New Political Life By David T. Beito. Open Universe, 2025. Paperback, 284 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Did the presidency of Herbert Hoover and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt actually prolong what today might be remembered as the “panic of...
From the Man Who Loved America
Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla Edited by Ryan P. Williams. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 128 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If the title of this collection of essays written in memory of and tribute to the...
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