Techne and Themis in History
The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe By Walter A. McDougall. Creed & Culture, 2026. Hardcover, 466 pages, $38. Reviewed by Michael Federici. In an era when so many aspects of life are being consolidated, it is refreshing and encouraging to...
Winston Churchill’s Path to Leadership
My Early Life: A Roving Commission By Winston S. Churchill. Edited by James W. Muller. St. Augustine’s Press, 1930/2025. Hardcover, 608 pages, $50. Reviewed by Frank A. von Hippel. Winston Churchill was a prolific and ambitious writer, for which he was...
The Patriotic 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 Wilfred McClay. Like any great and influential writer, Russell Kirk has often suffered from being misread,...
Jesuits and Revolutions
Dragons: A Roman Requiem By Joseph Carola, S.J. Sophia Institute Press, 2026. Paperback, 256 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. For much of the nineteenth century, Rome was a city attempting to recover from revolution and war. The...
Taking Movies Seriously, Perhaps Too Seriously
The Screen and the Mirror: What Movies Show Us About Ourselves, the World, and God By Gina Dalfonzo. Cascade Books, 2026. Paperback, 164 pages, $23. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. Like reading classic literature, viewing and studying classic film is a means of examining...
The Seduction and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
Seductive AI By Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Encounter Books, 2026. Paperback, 48 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In this brief “broadside,” Glenn Harlan Reynolds discusses the potential effects, for both good and ill, of artificial intelligence. Reynolds begins...
The Audacious 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 Bruce P. Frohnen. This new collection, On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776, is welcome and...
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....
Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.