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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer
“Lighthizer… must be credited with disrupting nearly 80 years of establishment orthodoxy on trade.”
Making Sense of Libertarianism
“Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi… have written an excellent, and perhaps the definitive, book on the history of libertarianism… This is a serious work of intellectual history…”
Constantine versus the U.S. Constitution
“Gutacker… defends a straightforward thesis: early American political contests were deeply informed by appeals to history.”
Paths of Protestant Social Thought
“The example set here calls us not only to begin with Scripture, but to always read it in conversation with millennia of Church history and thinking.”
A Revived Cultural Christianity?
“Wolfe reminds us that renewal in America is a matter not only of private faith, but of a public Christian spirit which is patriotic and grateful for our ancient Christian civil order.”
Reclaiming Our Cities
“As an introduction to many important ideas, Beyer excels in explaining concepts on urban affairs in a clear, accessible way… As a practical guide to transforming cities, though, it has flaws and room for improvement.”
Victims as Heroes: The Aesthetic Challenge of Sound of Freedom
“The solution to the problem is not simply more and stronger government agents bashing down doors… but the work of communities and individuals advocating and interceding in a variety of ways.”
The Perennial Relevance of Edmund Burke
“…a putative freedom outside of the moral norms of the Christian religion (whether expressed as liberalism, socialism, communism, or some versions of conservatism) is quite a different thing to the real freedom to which human beings have, in Burke’s thinking, a natural right.”
The Inadequacy of Burke in Part
“…even those with a just passing knowledge of Burke know that… he is famous for… his skepticism, very qualified acceptance, and sometimes vehement denunciation, of rights-talk in general and of politics grounded in ‘natural rights’ or ‘rights of man’ in particular.”
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."
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