Political Breakdown: Why Politics Have Failed By Lawrence M. Mead. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. Hardcover, 183 pages, $110.95. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. If it wasn’t already obvious, today’s politics is burdened by third rails, sacred cows that ought not be...
Clashing Over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy By Douglas A. Irwin. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Hardcover, 832 pages, $38. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. The Trump years have thrust trade policy back into the national conversation for the first time since...
No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers By Robert Lighthizer. Broadside Books, 2023. Hardcover, 384 pages, $32.00. Review by Frank Filocomo. Ever since the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump in 2016, the issue of...
The Tragedy of American Compassion By Marvin Olasky. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Paperback, 300 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. What does it mean to be compassionate to the needy? More precisely: what does it mean to be compassionate, and who are the needy?...
An essay by Frank Filocomo. The conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk is fundamentally incompatible with an ungrounded and listless libertarian ethos. While Burke and Kirk emphasize the importance of social cohesiveness and community, libertarians vociferously...
Personalism in the Age of AI Grant R. Martsolf on "Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh" Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko.
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