A Sophist American Framing
America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It By C. Bradley Thompson. Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 461 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy On the fusionist political right, there are several...
The Towns Brexit Forgets
Little Platoons: How a Revived One Nation Can Empower England’s Forgotten Towns and Redraw the Political Map By David Skelton. Biteback Publishing, 2019. Paperback, 304 pages, £12.99. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy The 2016 popular vote in favor of the United Kingdom’s...
Metaphysics for a Broken Western World
The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives Edited by Christopher M. Cullen, SJ and Franklin T. Harkins. Catholic University of America Press, 2019. Hardcover, 320 pages, $75. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy The Western world...
When Left and Right Agree
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream By Nicholas Lemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Hardcover, 306 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy To capture the gravity of the social problems plaguing the United States, one can...
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