From The Quest for Community to the Restoration of Authority

The Quest for Community at 70

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom By Robert Nisbet. Regnery/ISI Books, 2010 (originally published in 1953). Paperback, 330 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Bradley J. Birzer. 1953 was an annus mirabilis for the conservative movement....
Kirk 101: The Politics of Prudence

Kirk 101: The Politics of Prudence

The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Introduction by Michael P. Federici. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Alan Cornett. The occasion of a thirtieth anniversary edition of Russell Kirk’s The Politics of Prudence spurs mixed...
Kirk 101: The Politics of Prudence

The Prophet of Imprudence

The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Introduction by Michael P. Federici. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by James Panero. The early 1990s appeared to many in America as a moment of conservative ascendancy. Forty years had passed...
Germans at War

Germans at War

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500  By Peter H. Wilson.  Belknap Press, 2023. Hardcover, 976 pages, $39.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell.  “Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be...
The Conscience of a Nation

The Conscience of a Nation

The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought By Melvin L. Rogers. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 400 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. African American political thought has seen a resurgence in...
A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues

A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Penguin, 2021. Hardcover, 480 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare. David Cutler and Ed Glaeser’s new book, Survival of the City (Penguin, 2021), is an oddity. It...
The Graces of Death and Nature

The Graces of Death and Nature

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives By Robert D. Richardson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 128 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Death is a morbid topic, one that most people...