Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship
Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill Edited and with an Introduction by John A. Burtka IV, Foreword by Larry P. Arnn. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Paperback, 300 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Statesmanship is an old-fashioned...
From The Quest for Community to the Restoration of Authority
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom By Robert Nisbet. Regnery/ISI Books, 2010 (originally published in 1953). Paperback, 330 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community is a book that endures....
Moral Inversion and the Things that Endure: Thoughts on Chantal Delsol’s The End of the Christian World
By Daniel J. Mahoney This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. With La Fin de la Chrétienté: L’inversion normative et la nouvel...
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