Limits and the Good Life
The Virtues of Limits By David McPherson. Oxford University Press, 2022 (Paperback 2025). Paperback, 208 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. In an age that glorifies leaping past all barriers, David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of...
We’re All Epicureans Now
The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination By Aaron Alexander Zubia. University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Hardcover, 386 pages, $70. Reviewed by Kayla Bartsch. A new book by Aaron Alexander Zubia, The Political...
The Rise of the World Builders
World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics By Bruno Maçães. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 274 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The geopolitical analyst, former diplomat, Harvard PhD (under Harvey Mansfield), global columnist, and...
The Martyrs Have Not Gone Away
The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecutions of Christians in the Twenty-First Century By Robert Royal. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Hardcover, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. Since the liturgical reforms of the Second...
Principle and Pragmatism in Law
The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties By Alan Dershowitz. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Cary Federman. In the late 1960s, Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter...
"Don Quixote makes life the protagonist. The affirmation of life is truly Don Quixote’s quest. The venerable knight-errant seeks more than life from his life." — Pedro Blas Gonzalez.
Melissa Lane is one of many left-liberal thinkers seeking a middle ground between “canceling” great thinkers and those in the New Right who seek to co-opt them for their postliberal vision. - Jesse Russell