Moral Inversion and the Things that Endure: Thoughts on Chantal Delsol’s The End of the Christian World
By Daniel J. Mahoney This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. With La Fin de la Chrétienté: L’inversion normative et la nouvel...
The Return to Paganism
By Chantal Delsol This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. Christianity was the instigator and guide of Western civilization, the...
Chantal Delsol and the End of the Christian World: A Symposium
La fin de la Chrétienté Chantal Delsol CERF, 2021 Paperback, 176 pages, 16,00€ This past January 30th and 31st, 2022, the Abigail Adams Institute, First Things, and the Zephyr Institute hosted a number of prominent scholars and writers in Cambridge, MA, for a...
Transcending the ‘Good Old Days’
Last Summer Boys: A Novel by Bill Rivers Lake Union Publishing, 2022 Paperback, 285 pages, $14.95 Reviewed by Ashlee Cowles Nostalgia is a word often used in reference to works of fiction like Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine and Stephen King’s novella “The Body,” which...
A Grateful Defense of the West
The War on the West by Douglas Murray Broadside Books, 2022 Hardcover, 320 pages, $27.99 Reviewed by Henry George Douglas Murray opens The War on the West with the line, “In recent years it has become clear that there is a war going on: a war on the West.… It is a...
Churchill’s Flawed Afterlife
Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill By Geoffrey Wheatcroft. W.W. Norton and Company, 2021. Hardcover, 640 pages, $40. Reviewed by John P. Rossi. In this new study of Winston Churchill’s life and (especially) his afterlife, Geoffrey...
Letting the Princess Out of the Castle
How to Raise a Conservative Daughter by Michelle Easton. Regnery, 2021. Hardcover, 256 pages. $29. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner The challenges facing conservative parents seem to multiply by the day. How-to guides exist for any and everything under the sun, but what...
Conservatism Balanced and Unbalanced
The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti. Basic Books, 2022. Hardback, 496 pages, $32. Reviewed by Paul Krause The election of Donald Trump in 2016 marked a watershed moment for American politics and in particular for the...
Laugh, It’ll Be Alright
How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from The Cultural Abyss by Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press, 2021. Paperback, 182 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. One caricature of a conservative is a man (always old, always white) shouting at clouds....
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.