The Rise of the World Builders

The Rise of the World Builders

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 Have Not Gone Away

The Martyrs Have Not Gone Away

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...
Principle and Pragmatism in Law

Principle and Pragmatism in Law

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...
The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

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 is Americanism

Localism is Americanism

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 Theological Virtue in the Earthly City

A Theological Virtue in the Earthly City

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...
Should We Be Good Bankers?

Should We Be Good Bankers?

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...
Aspirational Conservatism

Aspirational Conservatism

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...