After Ideology but Before the Revolution: The Liberal Soul

After Ideology but Before the Revolution: The Liberal Soul

The Growth of the Liberal Soul (2nd Edition) By David Walsh. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997/2025. Paperback, 416 pages, $39. Reviewed by Barry Cooper. In The Modern Philosophical Revolution (2008), David Walsh tells us where he changed his mind on several...
After Ideology but Before the Revolution: The Liberal Soul

Liberalism’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

The Growth of the Liberal Soul (2nd Edition) By David Walsh. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997/2025. Paperback, 416 pages, $39. Reviewed by Joseph R. Fornieri. In today’s hyper polarized climate, the partisan label of “liberal” denotes either praise or blame...
After Ideology but Before the Revolution: The Liberal Soul

The Paradox of Liberal Resilience

The Growth of the Liberal Soul (2nd Edition) By David Walsh. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997/2025. Paperback, 416 pages, $39. Reviewed by John von Heyking. The publication of the second edition of Growth of the Liberal Soul is a testament to David Walsh’s deep...
Marxism and the Rising Generation

Marxism and the Rising Generation

NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It  By Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Cornell Gorka.  Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover 332 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. NextGen Marxism is one of the most informative and relevant books I have read in years. It...
Cracking the Code to Civilization

Cracking the Code to Civilization

The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd Edition) By Waller R. Newell. Independently Published, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $14.99. Reviewed by Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Waller R. Newell’s The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd...
Hon. John Engler Now Serves as the Kirk Center Chairman of the Board

Celebrating the 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prizes

Celebrating the 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prizes On November 19, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. with a full crowd for the second  annual Richard D. McLellan Free Speech Prizes gala honoring 2025 grand prize winner...
France and the Problem of Abstraction

France and the Problem of Abstraction

Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
Humane Literature and the Divided Soul

Humane Literature and the Divided Soul

The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life By Heidi White. Goldberry, 2025. Hardcover, 238 pages. $29.00. Reviewed by Gary Hartenburg. Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life, unites a memoir in fragments with a...
Antisemitism, a Foreign Tradition

Antisemitism, a Foreign Tradition

Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...