Churchill in His Element

Churchill in His Element

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan By Winston S. Churchill with an introduction by James W. Muller and foreword by Lady Soames. St. Augustine’s Press, 2021. Hardcover, 1560 pages, $150. Reviewed by Frank A. von Hippel. Winston...
Retaining Humanity in the Age of A.I.

Retaining Humanity in the Age of A.I.

Wiser Than the Machine: The Value of Classical Christian Education in an Age of Artificial Intelligence By Michael Collender and Jonathan Shaw. Veritas Press, 2024. Paperback, 125 pages, $9.95. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair.  For decades, books and movies have speculated...
Roosevelt’s Revolution

Roosevelt’s Revolution

The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance By David T. Beito. Independent Institute, 2023. Hardcover, 404 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Franklin Delano Roosevelt ranks...
Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship

Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship

Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill Edited and with an Introduction by John A. Burtka IV, Foreword by Larry P. Arnn. Regnery Gateway, 2024.  Paperback, 300 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Statesmanship is an old-fashioned...
Sowell’s Summary Argument

Sowell’s Summary Argument

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Edward Weech. Over the past decade, the discourse of “social justice” has ripped through the Western world, inspiring a cultural insurgency that has undermined the...
Sowell’s Summary Argument

Vanquishing the Social Justice Warriors

Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell.  Basic Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Much as varied channels and rivulets flow from a common source of water, many conservative and classical liberal arguments in the last half fifty...
A Gentleman Out of Moscow

A Gentleman Out of Moscow

Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile By Fiona Maddocks. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert Bellafiore. In the last years of Romanov Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff was enjoying life as a musical giant, composing such titanic hits as the...
Taking the Road Less Traveled

Taking the Road Less Traveled

Painting Over the Growth Chart  By Dan Rattelle. Wiseblood Books, 2024. Paperback, 63 pages, $15. Reviewed by A.M. Juster.  The spirit of Robert Frost surely does not look kindly on claims that some new poet walks in his footsteps, particularly one with a fancy-pants...
To Recover Is to Return

To Recover Is to Return

Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture  By Anthony Esolen.  Regnery Gateway, 2017/2022. Paperback, 256 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In an age of political correctness and guarded speech, Anthony Esolen’s writing strikes one as wonderfully...