The Republic and the American Right
War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism By Kevin Slack. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 456 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Mark G. Brennan. This just in: Rural Americans are fleeing the Democratic Party! In case you missed “Why Democrats Are Losing...
Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy
The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...
Under the Light of the Same Communion Candle: From Russell Kirk to James Matthew Wilson
T. S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy By James Matthew Wilson. Wiseblood Books, 2024. Paperback, 72 pages, $5. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. Matthew Arnold’s thesis in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time reads much like a response by Arnold to suggestions...
TIME Marches On… Past 100
By John Rodden. The Man of TIME’s Century Who was the most influential journalist in American history? Benjamin Franklin? Horace Greeley? Joseph Pulitzer? William Randolph Hearst? How about Edward R. Murrow? Walter Cronkite? Sufficient grounds exist for all of...
The Missing Virtue
Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue By Christopher M. Bellitto. Georgetown University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Good people around the world have encountered narcissists who love no one and nothing, not even...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.