A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation, and Tradition by Ferenc Hörcher Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Paperback, 216 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Karl Gustel Wärnberg Political theory has for the past few centuries placed justice at the center of...
[Editor’s Note: “Lessons from Toyland” is a holiday essay to be published in three installments: Part I, December 22; Part II, December 26; and Part III, January 2, 2022. Many thanks to the imaginative author for this Christmastide contribution.] Part III By E. Wesley...
[Editor’s Note: “Lessons from Toyland” is a holiday essay to be published in three installments: Part I, December 22; Part II, December 26; and Part III, January 2, 2022. Many thanks to the imaginative author for this Christmastide contribution.] Part II By E. Wesley...
[Editor’s Note: “Lessons from Toyland” is a holiday essay to be published in three installments: Part I, December 22; Part II, December 26; and Part III, January 2, 2022. Many thanks to the imaginative author for this Christmastide contribution.] Part I By E. Wesley...
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. W. W. Norton, 2021. Hardcover, 464 pages, $28. Reviewed by Carl Rollyson The title of the work under review hearkens back to The Mad Woman in the Attic: The Woman...
Between Two Millstones, Book 2: Exile in America, 1978–1994 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Hardcover, 584 pages, $39. Reviewed by Jeremy Kee The world as a whole, and the United States in particular, is changing more quickly and...
The Reactionary Mind: Why “Conservative” Isn’t Enough by Michael Warren Davis. Regnery, 2021. Hardcover, 256 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by Casey Chalk There’s a common interaction my wife and I have with people when we are out with our four young children. The stranger...
The Book that Shaped the Study of England Between the Wars English History, 1914–1945. The Oxford History of England, Volume XV. by A. J. P. Taylor. Oxford University Press, 1965. By John Rossi Alan John Percivale Taylor (1906–1990) was the “bad boy” of the...
A reflection on Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs (Random House, 2004) By Robert Grant Price “Hindsight may well expose my blind spots,” Jane Jacobs, the famed urbanist, wrote in Dark Age Ahead, the last book she wrote before her death at the age of 89. As a final...
Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education by Jonathan Marks. Princeton University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 248 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Matthew Stewart For those ready to give up on the university, Jonathan Marks provides encouraging counsel:...
Climate Realism in an Alarmed Age
Joshua J. Bowman on "Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism," edited by E. Calvin Beisner and David R. Legates. @Regnery
