Recovering the Founders’ Constitutional Order
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Bradley C. S. Watson. The...
In the Details There Is No Devil
The Gospel Truth: How We Can Know What Christ Taught By Gary Michuta. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Unlike every other religion, Christianity stakes its entire claim to legitimacy on whether certain...
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...
Rachel Hadas’s Pastorals mirrors the house within its pages—static, but, like the windows, each one provides a different view each time it is read, depending on the changes in the seasons and the weather of the reader’s life. Pastorals invites you in, shows you around, tells a
Rediscovering the lost ideal of leisure is highly worthwhile regardless of whether we are headed for a world in which humans need not apply for most jobs. Tabachnick’s book is a fruitful and thought-provoking exploration of how we might realize this ideal. - Robert Rich on THE