A Measured Look at an Unsettling Ideology
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice By Adam Kirsch. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. Hardcover, 160 pages, $24.99 Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The term “settler colonialism” has exploded in popularity. According to the Google Books NGram Viewer,...
Stylist for the Ages
Chateaubriand: Selected Writings Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Imperium Press, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $8.50. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand—nobleman, adventurer, poet, and memoirist—a sampling of whose work appears in this...
The Conservative as Artist: Flannery O’Connor and the Ethical Life
The Conservative as Artist: Flannery O’Connor and the Ethical Life Michael P. Federici, Ph.D.Professor and former Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Middle Tennessee State University Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm...
Limits and the Good Life
The Virtues of Limits By David McPherson. Oxford University Press, 2022 (Paperback 2025). Paperback, 208 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. In an age that glorifies leaping past all barriers, David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of...
We’re All Epicureans Now
The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination By Aaron Alexander Zubia. University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Hardcover, 386 pages, $70. Reviewed by Kayla Bartsch. A new book by Aaron Alexander Zubia, The Political...
The Rise of the World Builders
World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics By Bruno Maçães. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 274 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The geopolitical analyst, former diplomat, Harvard PhD (under Harvey Mansfield), global columnist, and...
The Martyrs Have Not Gone Away
The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecutions of Christians in the Twenty-First Century By Robert Royal. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Hardcover, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. Since the liturgical reforms of the Second...
Principle and Pragmatism in Law
The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties By Alan Dershowitz. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Cary Federman. In the late 1960s, Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter...
Acton Interns Explore the Conservative Disposition at 2025 Kirk Center Retreat
Acton Interns Explore the Conservative Disposition at 2025 Kirk Center Retreat The Russell Kirk Center welcomed Acton Institute interns for their annual intellectual retreat, focusing on the topic of “Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition.” To help the student...
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