by Jeremy A. Kee | Feb 28, 2021
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul and the West Edited by David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Hardcover, 400 pages, $60. Reviewed by Jeremy A. Kee The world is not changed by those whose voices are joined...
by Br. Augustine Wärnberg | Feb 28, 2021
Modern konservatism: filosofi, bärande idéer och inriktningar i Burkes efterföljd by Jakob Söderbaum. Recito Förlag (Sweden), 2020. Paperback, 311 pages. Reviewed by Br. Augustine Wärnberg In recent years there has been a significant development in the conservative...
by Bruce P. Frohnen | Feb 21, 2021
The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite by Michael Lind. Penguin, 2020. Hardcover, 193 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen The rise of populist movements throughout the West and the intense, angry response to them from technocratic elites...
by Jason Morgan | Feb 21, 2021
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 736 pages, $40. Reviewed by Jason Morgan For decades, many Western China-watchers were convinced that, given time, the People’s...
by Julian G. Waller | Feb 14, 2021
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage. Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 424 pages, $35. Reviewed by Julian G. Waller The authoritarian regimes of today are nothing like those of yesterday, and...
by Jessica Hooten Wilson | Feb 7, 2021
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jessica Hooten Wilson We’ve become accustomed to the “battle” language with regards to the...