McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm View of the House Committee on Un-American Activities By William F. Buckley, Jr....
The Geography of the Peace By Nicholas John Spykman. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. By Francis P. Sempa. As the United States pours more resources into the Ukraine War and the conflicts in the Levant, our policymakers could do worse than reflect on a book written...
George Kennan for Our Time By Lee Congdon. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa. The United States in the early 21st century, Lee Congdon writes, suffers from a wayward internationalist foreign policy...
By Francis P. Sempa. Patrick J. Buchanan has announced his retirement from writing his syndicated column. He is, at age 84, reportedly working on a memoir. Long before Donald Trump strode onto the political scene, Buchanan laid the intellectual foundations for an...
By Francis P. Sempa. In his 1948 masterpiece Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver assessed the cultural decline afflicting the West caused by the elite abandonment of the Judeo-Christian heritage. In the book’s introduction, Weaver wrote that his book was about...
A Scholar for all Seasons ----- Henry T. Edmondson III on "Flannery O’Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel" by Ralph C. Wood. Baylor University Press.
The Formless Void of the Therapeutic
The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion, and the Self," Edited by William G. Batchelder, IV and Michael P. Harding. @BloomsburyPub @BloomsburyPhilo @ciceroniansoc
Reviewed by Albert Norton, Jr.