Natural Law in the Protestant Tradition
A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law By Mads Langballe Jensen. Brill, 2019. Hardcover, 222 pages, $130.00. Reviewed by E.J. Hutchinson. It was not very long ago that answering the question of what Protestants...
Identity Politics as Ersatz Religion
American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time By Joshua Mitchell. Encounter, 2020/2022. Paperback, 312 pages, $20.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. Identity politics is one of the defining issues of our time. In American Awakening, Joshua...
From The Quest for Community to the Restoration of Authority
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 Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community is a book that endures....
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....
Celebrating the Conservative Mind at 70 in Washington, D.C.
Celebrating the Conservative Mind at 70 in Washington, D.C. On December 5, we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Russell Kirk’s landmark work, The Conservative Mind, a book that gave the conservative movement in America both a name and an awareness of our...
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...
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...
The Politics of Prudence: Introduction to the 2023 Edition
The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. By Michael P. Federici. This introduction to the 2023 edition of The Politics of Prudence is reprinted with permission from Regnery. Originally published in 1993, about a...
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...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.