Citizenship Matters
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback, 326 pages, $42.99. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley have edited a wonderful collection of essays about topics related...
The Mind Of Middle-Earth: Exploring The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition Edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien. William Morrow, 2023. Hardcover, 432 pages, $40. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. It is always a privilege to travel through the articulate mind of the man who...
Swimming in the Secular Fishbowl
Practicing Christians, Practical Atheists: How Cultural Liturgies and Everyday Social Practices Shape the Christian Life By Phil Davignon. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 158 pages, $22. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What are the biggest factors driving...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Joseph Berger
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence (Jewish Lives) By Joseph Berger. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 360 pages, $26. Joseph Berger published Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence early last year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley caught up with...
Why America Needs to Rediscover American Exceptionalism
Radical Betrayal: How Liberals & Neoconservatives Are Wrecking American Exceptionalism By Anders W. Edwardsson. Defiance Press & Publishing, 2023. Paperback, 330 pages, $17.89. Reviewed by John Hendrickson. Anders Edwardsson in Radical Betrayal: How Liberals...
Portrait of an Artist
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris By Alicia Foster. Thames & Hudson, 2023. Hardcover, 272 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Sean McGlynn. The work of the Welsh artist Gwen John (1876-1939) has recently re-emerged from relative obscurity. This is due to two fine...
Against the New Deal
New Deal Rebels: An Anthology of Critics of the New Deal Edited by Amity Shlaes. American Institute for Economic Research, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $18. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. From the vantage point of roughly seven decades of depression-less prosperity, Amity...
Correcting the Historical Record on Slavery
The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery By Paul Kengor. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. When explaining why he was Catholic, G.K. Chesterton observed that there are thousands of reasons all...
History of the American Revolution Well Told
The Diplomacy of the American Revolution By Samuel Flagg Bemis. Introduction by Ben Judge. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Kevin R. C. Gutzman. Samuel Flagg Bemis was a master of American diplomatic history, a field that has now...
Editor, @lsheahan, on the @lawliberty podcast with @JohnGGrove1 discussing new edition of Robert Nisbet's classic, The Social Philosophers. @AmPhilSociety Press.
Me, on a new edition of ROBERT NISBET's THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS, out with @AmPhilSociety Press, on the @lawliberty Podcast with @JohnGGrove1.
I enjoyed the opportunity to interview @lsheahan for the @LawLiberty Podcast on the new edition of Robert Nisbet's The Social Philosophers. Give it a listen and subscribe at Apple/Spotify etc...