The Christian and Classical Roots of American Order

The Christian and Classical Roots of American Order

by | Dec 31, 2023

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan. Nearly a half...
Cormac McCarthy Symposium

Cormac McCarthy Symposium

by | Jun 18, 2023

The Passenger and Stella Maris.  By Cormac McCarthy.  Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Cormac McCarthy was arguably America’s greatest living novelist. Last week, that ceased to be the case. McCarthy died in his home on Tuesday. In late 2022, McCarthy published...
The Humaneness of the Historical Mind

The Humaneness of the Historical Mind

by | Sep 13, 2020

The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age edited by Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston SUNY Press, 2020. Hardcover, 320 pages, $95. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan The historical mind is not without its controversy. And for good reason. It...
The Unwritten Constitution

The Unwritten Constitution

by | Aug 16, 2020

A Constitution in Full: Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty by Peter Augustine Lawler and Richard M. Reinsch II. University Press of Kansas, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan C. S. Lewis famously warned that “the...