Essentially Lying About the Left and Right
The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America By Verlan Lewis and Hyrum Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 168 pages, $99. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In school, media, and politics, we are taught that people see the...
Why We Need Beauty
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art By Michael B. Gill. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 248 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. Now neglected in the Western canon, Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions,...
American Hegemony in Higher Education
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China By William C. Kirby. Harvard University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 504 pages, $37.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In September U.S. News & World Report released its much-resented but...
"Delsol’s analysis stands out for the breadth of its perspective. Her essay covers topics as varied as corporatism, the French love for status and strikes, immigration, religion and secularism, populism and the role of intellectuals, Jacobinism, and the EU..."