More Than a Commercial Republic
The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World By Samuel Gregg. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 336 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by John G. Grove. Editor’s Note: See the Bookman’s episode of the Book Gallery with Samuel Gregg here. Samuel...
Nationalizing Conservatism
Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by John G. Grove In the introduction to The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk defended his choice of Burke as the originator of modern conservatism: “If one...
Scruton Makes His Case
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism Edited by Mark Dooley. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $28. Reviewed by John G. Grove How should the conservative respond to a time in which so much seems to be lost?...
Making Tories and Whigs
The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 350 pages, $100. Reviewed by John G. Grove The “long” eighteenth century has proven to be one of the most fertile...
More than Regime Change, We Need a New Cosmological Vision