McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr., his one-time Yale debate partner, National...
Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious By Ross Douthat. Zondervan, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Luca Frumento. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg explaining how Europe came to forget Christianity’s deep...
Fr. Spitzer’s Universe: Exploring Life’s Big Questions By Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. EWTN Publishing Inc., 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what Original Sin is? Or whether there is evidence for the human soul? Or why...
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now By Daniel J. Mahoney. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 168 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. At the beginning of The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel J. Mahoney points...
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice By Adam Kirsch. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. Hardcover, 160 pages, $24.99 Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The term “settler colonialism” has exploded in popularity. According to the Google Books NGram Viewer,...
Chateaubriand: Selected Writings Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Imperium Press, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $8.50. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand—nobleman, adventurer, poet, and memoirist—a sampling of whose work appears in this...
The Conservative as Artist: Flannery O’Connor and the Ethical Life Michael P. Federici, Ph.D.Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Middle Tennessee State University Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm...
The Virtues of Limits By David McPherson. Oxford University Press, 2022 (Paperback 2025). Paperback, 208 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. In an age that glorifies leaping past all barriers, David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of...
The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination By Aaron Alexander Zubia. University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Hardcover, 386 pages, $70. Reviewed by Kayla Bartsch. A new book by Aaron Alexander Zubia, The Political...
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...
Harvey Mansfield’s Long Dissent
@AdamKissel on "Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell on Deaf Ears" by Harvey C. Mansfield. @EncounterBooks
Hebraic Ideas at the Founding
Daniel James Sundahl on "Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story," Edited By Wilfred McClay and Stuart Halpern.
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