Natural Law in the Protestant Tradition

Natural Law in the Protestant Tradition

A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law By Mads Langballe Jensen. Brill, 2019. Hardcover, 222 pages, $130.00. Reviewed by E.J. Hutchinson. It was not very long ago that answering the question of what Protestants...
Identity Politics as Ersatz Religion

Identity Politics as Ersatz Religion

American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time By Joshua Mitchell. Encounter, 2020/2022.  Paperback, 312 pages, $20.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. Identity politics is one of the defining issues of our time. In American Awakening, Joshua...
From The Quest for Community to the Restoration of Authority

The Quest for Community at 70

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom By Robert Nisbet. Regnery/ISI Books, 2010 (originally published in 1953). Paperback, 330 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Bradley J. Birzer. 1953 was an annus mirabilis for the conservative movement....
Kirk 101: The Politics of Prudence

Kirk 101: The Politics of Prudence

The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Introduction by Michael P. Federici. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Alan Cornett. The occasion of a thirtieth anniversary edition of Russell Kirk’s The Politics of Prudence spurs mixed...
Kirk 101: The Politics of Prudence

The Prophet of Imprudence

The Politics of Prudence By Russell Kirk. Introduction by Michael P. Federici. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Paperback, 314 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by James Panero. The early 1990s appeared to many in America as a moment of conservative ascendancy. Forty years had passed...