All That’s Left is This Foundation Stone
The Commonwealth: Poems By Dan Rattelle. Little Gidding Press, 2022. Paperback, 34 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Joshua Hren. Wordsworth’s complaint in the Lyrical Ballads Preface (1800) might well have been written last Tuesday at 2:00 a.m. (lost already among too many...
Where Conservatives Converse
Conversations on Conservatism: Speeches from the Philadelphia Society Edited by Marcus Witcher, Blake Ball, and Kevin Hughes. American Institute for Economic Research, 2021. Paperback, 374 pages, $18.00. Reviewed by Gregory L. Schneider. The Philadelphia Society. What...
Whether the Heart Has Its Reasons of Which It Knows Nothing
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment By Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey. Princeton University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 264 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. My parents’ wish is for me to be happy is a phrase so often quoted to...
On the Need for Property and Virtue
Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class. Mark T. Mitchell. Front Porch Republic Books, 2022. Paperback, 180 pages, $23. Reviewed by Michael P. Federici. Every age eventually faces the challenge of what in recent times has...
Talking Race: Community Over Conflict
All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory By Edward Feser. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 163 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. In All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory, philosopher...
Sexuality and Gender: Returning to the Sources
Origen’s Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female By Brian Patrick Mitchell. Pickwick Publications, 2021. Hardcover, 280 pages, $49.00. Reviewed by Father Lawrence Farley. Once in a very long while one finds a volume that checks...
Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change
Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789 by E. Wesley Reynolds III. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Cloth, 264 pages, $115.00. Reviewed by James E. Person Jr. Near the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson famously referred to coffee as “the favorite drink of the...
Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience
By Ben Peterson At least since Sophocles’ dramatic telling of the bitter conflict between Antigone and Creon over the burial of Antigone’s traitorous brother, the tension between higher law and the benefits of a public order that promotes law abidingness has been...
Found in Translation: Capturing the Sublime with Ryan Wilson
Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020 By Ryan Wilson. Franciscan University Press, 2021. Paper, 224 pages, $15.00. Reviewed by Patrick Callahan. Ryan Wilson’s new collection of verse translations, Proteus Bound, dazzles when you try to grasp it. The whole...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
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Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.