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...
The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies By Aziz A. Huq. Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 192 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Glen Sproviero. Aziz Huq’s The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies is an elegantly written, yet deeply flawed examination of American...
Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching Edited by Dale Ahlquist and Michael Warren Davis. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Hardcover, 240 pages, $21.95. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. If the editors of this collection win the day, a new “ism” will be...
A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine’s Political Thought By Michael Lamb. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 448 Pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Daniel B. Gallagher. One of the most difficult things to instill in the minds of college-aged students today is the...
Be Good Bankers: The Economic Interpretation of Matthew’s Gospel, with a Fresh Translation By Michael Pakaluk. Gateway Editions, 2025. Hardcover, 340 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Paul D. Mueller. Should we be good bankers? Dr. Michael Pakaluk explores that...
Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer By John D. Wilsey. W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025. Hardcover, 288 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Adjectives that shape “conservatism” are not in short supply. Two early ones, casting conservatism into...
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