The Paradoxical Ideology

The Paradoxical Ideology

The Ideology of Democratism By Emily B. Finley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $54.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. A new poll by the University of Virginia Center of Politics found that American voters have a mutual mistrust of the other side and...
The Paradoxical Ideology

Democratism and False Equivalence

The Ideology of Democratism By Emily B. Finley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $54.00. Reviewed by James M. Patterson. On February 17, 2017, The Washington Post unveiled its new slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” as the newspaper took an...
Churchill in His Element

Churchill in His Element

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan By Winston S. Churchill with an introduction by James W. Muller and foreword by Lady Soames. St. Augustine’s Press, 2021. Hardcover, 1560 pages, $150. Reviewed by Frank A. von Hippel. Winston...
Retaining Humanity in the Age of A.I.

Retaining Humanity in the Age of A.I.

Wiser Than the Machine: The Value of Classical Christian Education in an Age of Artificial Intelligence By Michael Collender and Jonathan Shaw. Veritas Press, 2024. Paperback, 125 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair.  For decades, books and movies have speculated...
Roosevelt’s Revolution

Roosevelt’s Revolution

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance By David T. Beito. Independent Institute, 2023. Hardcover, 404 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Franklin Delano Roosevelt ranks...
Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship

Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship

Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill Edited and with an Introduction by John A. Burtka IV, Foreword by Larry P. Arnn. Regnery Gateway, 2024.  Paperback, 300 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Statesmanship is an old-fashioned...
Sowell’s Summary Argument

Sowell’s Summary Argument

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Edward Weech. Over the past decade, the discourse of “social justice” has ripped through the Western world, inspiring a cultural insurgency that has undermined the...
Sowell’s Summary Argument

Vanquishing the Social Justice Warriors

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell.  Basic Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Much as varied channels and rivulets flow from a common source of water, many conservative and classical liberal arguments in the last half fifty...
A Gentleman Out of Moscow

A Gentleman Out of Moscow

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile By Fiona Maddocks. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert Bellafiore. In the last years of Romanov Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff was enjoying life as a musical giant, composing such titanic hits as the...