Political Theology for Realists
Slaying Leviathan: Limited Government and Resistance in the Christian Tradition By Glenn S. Sunshine. Canon Press, 2020. Paperback,194 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by Zachary Yost. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 heralded a new era in American political discourse....
What Do Conservatives Believe?
What Do Conservatives Believe? An evening conversation with Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos On Wednesday, May 31, 2023, The Russell Kirk Center made institutional history by hosting nearly 300 leaders, students and educators, friends and supporters at an event featuring a...
Cormac McCarthy Symposium
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Cormac McCarthy was arguably America’s greatest living novelist. Last week, that ceased to be the case. McCarthy died in his home on Tuesday. In late 2022, McCarthy published...
The Duty of the Craftsman: Beauty and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Brent Walter Cline. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. At the end of Cormac McCarthy’s last novel, the main character Alicia...
The Law for Man and the Law for Thing: The Political Theory of Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Michael P. Federici. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. Few fiction writers achieve the critical and commercial success that marks...
As Likely to End the World as to Save It: Knowledge and Science in Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. “And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there...
Learning from the Habsburg Mystique
The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times By Eduard Habsburg. Sophia Institute Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What makes the Habsburgs, rulers for six centuries of the Holy Roman Empire and later the...
The Catholic Enlightenment
Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason By Joseph T. Stuart. Sophia Institute Press, 2020. Paperback, 400 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Christian Browne. The question of how, and whether, to reconcile the Catholic Church with the modern world has been...
Tory Violence and Liberal Weakness: An Appreciation of George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England
By John Rossi. It is rare when an historical study, even when scholarly challenged, continues to dominate an interpretation of events. Churchill’s indictment of appeasement in The Gathering Storm and Richard Hofstadter’s study of the flaws of the progressive idea in...
"The things we love and are grateful for in our Western societies are under attack. We might very well lose them, and this realization is animating conservatives like Roberts to advocate for “offensive conservatism” before our fragile civilization is lost."
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