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Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps
“[The book] conveys strong reasons to admire the founders: they trained and emerged in a relatively meritocratic political system, and understood demography, economic policy, and strategy…”
Imprisoned by the Internet
“…James’s volume is an accessible invitation to consider the possibility that the internet as such—wholly apart from any particular content—is forming people in essentially malign ways.”
An Unsettling Sense of Justice
“…Mendenhall composes a compelling story highlighting the gray gaps where the law has not the acuity to locate justice…”
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Thomas Harding
“The numerous books that George Weidenfeld helped publish ‘transformed western culture and have stood the test of time…'”
Saint Una and the Women Who Made Saint Augustine
“…Cooper’s work is part biography and part cultural history when she reflects on the four women who dance across Augustine’s heart and soul and the pages of the Confessions.”
The U.S. Constitution and Slavery
“…these works by Gilhooley and Watkins might be better framed not simply as critiques of the Philadelphia Constitution or of the original intent of its framers, but as critiques of the American experiment with popular constitutionalism itself.”
Draining the Swamp
“What can be easily detected in these pages is Bernhardt’s skepticism, doubts, and concerns about the role of experts and expertise within the administrative state.”
After Liberalism…Faith?
“[Gray’s] newest book highlights the nature of the work right in the sub-title: ‘Thoughts after Liberalism.’ This is not an argument that liberalism has failed… or a program for what should come after liberalism… or a philosophical critique of liberalism… Instead, it is as though the reader has been invited to eavesdrop on Gray’s inner dialogues as he mulls over a post-liberal world.”
The Romance of Journalism in the American Century
“The book is not a comprehensive history of twentieth century journalism, nor is it trying to be… Its primary goal is to show that journalism is a thing of great import and beauty.”
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I have a review at the University Bookman (@KirkCenter) today of @AmitMajmudar's The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (@acre_books). Check it out 👇.
"No one...takes poetic hairpin turns at speed like Majmudar does. His poems are full of sonic swerves and surprises..."
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