by Jason Ross | Jan 15, 2023
Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall By Christopher Owen. Lexington Books, 2021. Hardcover, 256 pages, $105. Reviewed by Jason Ross. As the conservative movement is crumbling, many outside of that movement’s mainstream are tracing their way back to...
by Jason Ross | Mar 27, 2022
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding by Robert R. Reilly. Ignatius Press, 2020. Hardcover, 384 pages, $28. Originalism’s Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution by Lee J. Strang. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paperback, 326 pages, $35....
by Jason Ross | Jan 10, 2021
Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution by Jeff Broadwater. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Hardcover, 296 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jason Ross No friendship in American history has been as consequential as that between Thomas Jefferson and...
by Jason Ross | May 24, 2020
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America By T. H. Breen. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jason Ross In the midst of a wave of populist revolutions upsetting global politics, Timothy...
by Jason Ross | Jun 16, 2019
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding by Sean Wilentz. Harvard University Press, 2018. Hardcover, 368 pages, $27. Reviewed by Jason Ross The single most influential interpreter of the Convention that framed the Constitution is the...