Chesterton and the Philosophers Edited by Landon Loftin. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2026. Paperback, 222 pages, $28.00 Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Editor Landon Loftin has the temerity to agree and then disagree with Garry Wills, who had the temerity to declare that...
American Independence in Verse By Bradford Skow. Pentameter Press, 2025. Paperback, 94 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Thomas Philbrick. In Book III of the Aeneid, Aeneas lands with his men on the shores of Carthage after fleeing Troy and surviving a string of harrowing...
2026 Public Conference “Reclaiming Authentic Conservatism: Russell Kirk and the Roots of American Order” Across our public life, voices on both Left and Right regularly question whether the moral and social inheritance of America is worth conserving. Can a...
On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular By Jonathan Sheehan. Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 608 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In the twenty-first century, several works have arisen chronicling the influence of...
The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars By Nigel Biggar. Polity Press, 2026. Hardcover, 192 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Nigel Biggar did not join the culture wars voluntarily: the culture wars came for him. He opens his new book with a...
Here It Snows in June & Other Stories By Eric Cyr. Wiseblood Books, 2026. Paperback, 156 pages, $16. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A driver on I-71 who takes the exit toward Ashland, Ohio, my home now for nearly three years, will be greeted with an oversized welcome...
Public Seminar: Knights, Heroes, and Patriots—Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination On Saturday, June 20, the Russell Kirk Center will host a day-long public seminar: “Knights, Heroes, and Patriots—Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American...
Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law By Benjamin Clark. Lexington Books, 2024. Hardcover, 252 pages, $120.00. Reviewed by John G. Grove. The debate over federal common law does not generally fire the imaginations...
Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution By Amy Coney Barrett. Sentinel, 2025. Hardcover, 336 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by James V. F. Dickey. Listening to the Law reveals the personal and public-facing perspectives of Supreme Court Justice Amy...
Taking Religion Seriously By Charles Murray. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 200 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. Taking Religion Seriously is a thoughtful, moving, and entertaining account of the author’s decades-long journey toward acceptance of...
And I Will Go to the Altar of God
Jesse Russell reviews "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular" by Jonathan Sheehan. @PrincetonUPress
