Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life By Heidi White. Goldberry, 2025. Hardcover, 238 pages. $29.00. Reviewed by Gary Hartenburg. Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life, unites a memoir in fragments with a...
Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
The following was given by James Panero at the Fourth Annual Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture on December 8, 2025, in New York City. E.B. White famously declared that “No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.” Tonight, I feel such luck...
William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2010/2019. Paperback, 224 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Last December, the venerable scholar of the conservative movement and the human force behind the Victims of Communism...
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet was one of the most...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Godefroy Desjonquères on "Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age" by Chantal Delsol. @UNDPress
