Remaking Cold War Diplomacy

Remaking Cold War Diplomacy

A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s  By Anthony M. Eames. University of Massachusetts Press, 2023.  Paperback, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Jason C. Phillips. Anthony M. Eames currently serves as the director...
When Rulers Look in the Mirror

When Rulers Look in the Mirror

The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas By William McCormick, S.J.  The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.  Paperback, 288 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Thomas F.X. Varacalli. In the field of political philosophy, Saint Thomas...
The Achievement of the Irish Poets

The Achievement of the Irish Poets

Catholic Modernism and the Irish “Avant-Garde”: The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas MacGreevy By James Matthew Wilson. Catholic University of America Press, 2024. Paperback, 488 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Although...
The Last European

The Last European

The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European By Stefan Zweig. Viking Press, 1943 (English Translation). Reviewed by John P. Rossi. On February 23, 1942, while Axis forces were triumphing everywhere—the Japanese overrunning the Philippines, the British withdrawing...
A “Sputnik Moment” for Civics

A “Sputnik Moment” for Civics

A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America’s Civic Education Crisis By Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Davenport. Republic Book Publishers, 2024. Hardcover, 250 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Last year’s dismal eighth grade scores on the history and civics exams...
Editors’ Summer Reading

Editors’ Summer Reading

Summer is well underway. So is our summer reading. Speaking of which—what are we reading?  Luke C. Sheahan, Editor I like to divide my summer reading between works of imagination, those for sharpening the saw, and ones read for professional reasons, either scholarly...
The Dublin Fog: In the Footsteps of the Irish Saints

The Dublin Fog: In the Footsteps of the Irish Saints

St. Patrick and His World  By Mike Aquilina. Scepter, 2024. Paperback, 144 pages, $15.95. Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity By Connie Marshner. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Ryan...
Love That Tells the Truth

Love That Tells the Truth

Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age By Rosaria Butterfield. Crossway, 2023. Hardcover, 368 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. Pride flags bedeck the Planned Parenthood clinic in my city. Often the volunteers who “escort” women into the abortion clinic wear...
Humanely Conservative

Humanely Conservative

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The controversies in our country’s...
Humanely Conservative

Conservative Humanism for a Postmodern Age

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Graham McAleer and Alexander...