The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken By Claes G. Ryn. Republic Book Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 468 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by John Grove. Since at least 2016, conservatism has been undergoing a bit of an intellectual identity crisis. Perhaps...
Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age By Rachel B. Griffis, Julie Ooms, and Rachel M. De Smith Roberts. Baker Academic, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. I sat in disbelief in front...
Alfred Dreyfus The Man at the Center of the Affair By Maurice Samuels. Yale University Press, 2024. Paperback, 224 pages, $20. Maurice Samuels published Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair early this year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley...
The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center By Martin Peretz. Wicked Son, 2023. Hardcover, 352 pages, $28.00. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If it can be said that a book occasionally arrives at just the right moment, Martin Peretz’s...
True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church By Francis X. Maier. Ignatius Press, 2024. Hardcover, 284 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Following the title page of Francis X. Maier’s True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church...
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company, 1550-1650 By David Howarth. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 480 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. One of the most popular phrases among Marxists during the long reign of Barack H. Obama was...
