Natural Law and the Challenge of Liberal Secularism

Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism by Robert P. George. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2013. Hardcover, 384 pages, $30.“Man is known to exist in no part of the world, without certain rules for the regulation of his intercourse...

Strong Essays on Burke

Edmund Burke, the Enlightenment and the Modern World, edited by Peter J. Stanlis. Detroit: University of Detroit Press, 1967. 129 pp. Putting a title on a collection of disparate papers is always a problem. Considering the difficulty, the editor of this volume has...

Rise of the Poster Children

An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America by Joseph Bottum. Image, 2014. Hardcover, 296 pp. $25.What is the most consequential political change to have occurred in the United States in the past 150 years? Most observers might nominate various...
A new issue of Studies in Burke and His Time

A new issue of Studies in Burke and His Time

The Edmund Burke Society of America announces a new issue of their journal, Studies in Burke and His Time, Volume 23. The issue features articles on the theme of Burke and history. Articles from Joseph Pappin III, Jeffrey O. Nelson, Elizabeth Lambert, and Aaron D....

The Monuments of Noble Men

An Editorial There is a famous story told of the great statesman (and farmer) Marcus Cato. Despite his own fearsome reputation in war and politics, Cato professed to scorn the honor of a physical monument to his achievements. “When any seemed to wonder,” writes...