World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics By Bruno Maçães. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 274 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The geopolitical analyst, former diplomat, Harvard PhD (under Harvey Mansfield), global columnist, and...
The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecutions of Christians in the Twenty-First Century By Robert Royal. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Hardcover, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. Since the liturgical reforms of the Second...
The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties By Alan Dershowitz. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Cary Federman. In the late 1960s, Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter...
Acton Interns Explore the Conservative Disposition at 2025 Kirk Center Retreat The Russell Kirk Center welcomed Acton Institute interns for their annual intellectual retreat, focusing on the topic of “Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition.” To help the student...
Recapping our First School of Conservative Studies Conference: Prospects for Anglo-American Conservatism in the Tradition of Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton On June 27–28, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center welcomed more than 130 participants and twenty-two speakers from...
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies By Aziz A. Huq. Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 192 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Glen Sproviero. Aziz Huq’s The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies is an elegantly written, yet deeply flawed examination of American...
Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching Edited by Dale Ahlquist and Michael Warren Davis. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Hardcover, 240 pages, $21.95. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. If the editors of this collection win the day, a new “ism” will be...
A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought By Michael Lamb. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 448 Pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Daniel B. Gallagher. One of the most difficult things to instill in the minds of college-aged students today is the...
Be Good Bankers: The Economic Interpretation of Matthew’s Gospel, with a Fresh Translation By Michael Pakaluk. Gateway Editions, 2025. Hardcover, 340 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Paul D. Mueller. Should we be good bankers? Dr. Michael Pakaluk explores that...
Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer By John D. Wilsey. W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025. Hardcover, 288 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Adjectives that shape “conservatism” are not in short supply. Two early ones, casting conservatism into...
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