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...
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...
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...
In the House of Tom Bombadil C.R. Wiley. Canon Press, 2021. Paper, 128 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but what is the point of him? He is one of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,...
M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom By Steven F. Hayward. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 400 pages, $33.99. Reviewed by James A. Davenport. Recently, I found myself working through a document that mentioned the name M. Stanton Evans. A colleague...
Minor Indignities: A Novel. By Trevor Cribben Merrill. Wiseblood Books, 2020. Paperback, 233 pages, $16.00. Reviewed by Alex Taylor. Reading Trevor Cribben Merrill’s first novel, Minor Indignities, one finds a fictional analogue to William F. Buckley’s God and Man at...
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall. Harvard University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 352 pages, $49.95. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Sarah Shortall’s Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology...
By Francis P. Sempa. When James Burnham formally left the Socialist Workers Party in 1940 (intellectually, he had left it the year before), he did not immediately embrace the conservatism of his American Mercury, The Freeman, and National Review years. Burnham instead...
How and How Not to Be Happy J. Budziszewski. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by David Weinberger. “Most people virtually agree,” wrote Aristotle, that happiness “is the highest of all the goods pursued in action.” But then, as now, people...
Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can’t Say or Even Think by Harley Price. FGF Books, 2022. Hardcover, 326 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. After reading about Gnosticism, which is Greek for Know-it-all-ism, for years, all I could...
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