Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man By Peter K. Andersson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a...
McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm View of the House Committee on Un-American Activities By William F. Buckley, Jr....
McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr., his one-time Yale debate partner, National...
Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious By Ross Douthat. Zondervan, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Luca Frumento. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg explaining how Europe came to forget Christianity’s deep...
Fr. Spitzer’s Universe: Exploring Life’s Big Questions By Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. EWTN Publishing Inc., 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what Original Sin is? Or whether there is evidence for the human soul? Or why...
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now By Daniel J. Mahoney. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 168 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. At the beginning of The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel J. Mahoney points...
“The Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.