The Imaginative Russell Kirk
On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776 By Russell Kirk. Edited by Michael Lucchese. Creed & Culture, 2026. Hardcover, 234 pages, $28. Reviewed by Christopher J. Scalia. There’s no such thing as a bad time to read Russell Kirk, but America’s 250th year...
Remembering Robert Fagles: From Suffering to Meaning
The Odyssey By Homer. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1999. Paperback, 541 pages, $19. The Aeneid By Virgil. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2008. Paperback, 496 pages, $19. The Oresteia. By Aeschylus. Translated by Robert Fagles....
Coming Home
The American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals about our Divided Souls By Patrick J. Deneen. Creed & Culture, 2026. Hardcover,198 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by Alexandra Bevins. In American Odyssey, Patrick Deneen draws from political theory, classics, American...
Ideas Matter Now More Than Ever
Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton Edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Daniel Pitt. Routledge, 2025. Hardcover, 246 pages, $133. Reviewed by S.D. Whatley. Until recently, good government meant the administration of things and the management of competing...
America’s Treasured Declaration
National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America By Michael Auslin. Simon & Schuster, 2026. Hardcover, 368 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matt Riffe. In a year in which the Declaration of Independence is front and center, it is easy to overlook...
Beyond the Tithe: Unearthing Two Millennia of Christian Political Economy
A History of Christian Political Economy: From the Patristics to the Present By Erik W. Matson and Jordan J. Ballor. B&H Academic, 2026. Hardcover, 432 pages, $54.99. Sources in Christian Political Economy: A Reader Edited by Erik W. Matson and Jordan J. Ballor....
Brent Bozell’s Prophecy of Judicial Imperium at 60
The Warren Revolution: Reflections on the Consensus Society By Brent Bozell. Arlington House, 1966. Hardcover, $49.99. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, it has been a repeated practice for a lower court, through an...
Who Are the Enemies of Academic Freedom?
Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times By Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman. Yale University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 304 pages, $30. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison. In Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times, Erwin...
Who’s the Furious One?
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right By Laura K. Field. Princeton University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book could have been titled in the singular, as in “furious mind,” since it is more than an occasional...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of