The Leadership of George Marshall

The Leadership of George Marshall

The Making of a Leader: The Formative Years of George C. Marshall By Josiah Bunting III. Knopf, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30. Reviewed by David Hein. Although long in gestation, this study of the formation of General George C. Marshall would have benefited from...
We Still Need Family, Religion, and Tradition

We Still Need Family, Religion, and Tradition

Enemies of the Innocent: Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age By N. A. Haug.  Academica Press, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book is at once terribly important and terribly frustrating. How could that possibly be, one justifiably...
The Woman Who Loved Lord Byron

The Woman Who Loved Lord Byron

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit By Antonia Fraser. Pegasus Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. “Lady Caroline Lamb broke the rules.” Who was Lady Caroline Lamb, the great rulebreaker, “free spirit,” and lady who nearly destroyed Lord...
Help Yourself

Help Yourself

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up By Abigail Shrier. Sentinel, 2024. Hardcover, 320 pages, $30. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Abigail Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy has a simple thesis: children and teens get too much therapy and too much of that therapy is...
The Paradoxical Ideology

The Paradoxical Ideology

The Ideology of Democratism By Emily B. Finley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $54.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. A new poll by the University of Virginia Center of Politics found that American voters have a mutual mistrust of the other side and...
The Paradoxical Ideology

Democratism and False Equivalence

The Ideology of Democratism By Emily B. Finley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $54.00. Reviewed by James M. Patterson. On February 17, 2017, The Washington Post unveiled its new slogan, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” as the newspaper took an...
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...