Spring is drawing to a close. Summer is upon us. That means it’s time for summer reading. Luke C. Sheahan, Editor Once final grades are submitted, and I’ve rested, I begin my trek through a summer booklist. At the top is always Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I read it...
Ronald Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers By Andrew E. Busch. University Press of Kansas, 2024. Paperback, 180 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Rare has been the day since President Trump was sworn in for his second term that Elon...
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn By Christopher Cox. Simon and Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. “The light withdrawn . . .” The line is borrowed from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Ichabod.” Woodrow Wilson as...
Sparta’s Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In Sparta’s Third Attic War, Paul H. Rahe continues his multi-volume history of...
Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 376 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by David Talcott. “In their haste to identify a formula for politics that would be applicable to all...
100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles To Faith Today By David Bonagura Jr. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Paperback, 176 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. “In the day to day trenches of adult life,” writes David Foster Wallace, “there is...
Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard. Yale University Press, 2025. Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Once upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with longing and rising...
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography By Émile Perreau-Saussine. Translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 216 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Rev. Joseph Scolaro. Editor’s Note: At the passing of the great Alasdair...
Conservative Thought from Burke to Eliot Class Time:Dates:Credits: Faculty: DescriptionThis course traces the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, providing special attention to the ideas and importance of Edmund Burke. Emerging from...
Editor, @lsheahan, on the @lawliberty podcast with @JohnGGrove1 discussing new edition of Robert Nisbet's classic, The Social Philosophers. @AmPhilSociety Press.
I enjoyed the opportunity to interview @lsheahan for the @LawLiberty Podcast on the new edition of Robert Nisbet's The Social Philosophers. Give it a listen and subscribe at Apple/Spotify etc...