Real Natural Law 

Real Natural Law 

Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution By Hadley Arkes. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hadley Arkes is a prophet in a materialist and positivist age, and he prophesies at length...
Knights On a Darkling Plain

Knights On a Darkling Plain

Diogenes Unveiled: A Paul Mankowski Collection Edited by Philip E. Lawler. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 294 pages, $19.95. Christendom Lost and Found: Meditations for a Post Post-Christian Era  By Father Robert McTeigue, S.J. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 125...
Mysteries Require Odes, Not Emails

Mysteries Require Odes, Not Emails

The Saint Mary’s Book of Christian Verse Chosen and Introduced by Edward Short. Foreword by Dana Gioia. Gracewing, 2022. Paperback, 412 pages, $25. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. In a technocratic and materialist age, an individual or institution’s attitude toward...
Every Mann

Every Mann

Thomas Mann: New and Selected Stories By Thomas Mann. Translated by Damion Searls. Liveright, 2023. Hardcover, 256 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Joshua Hren. Thomas Mann towers intimidatingly over the twentieth century’s literary landscape, not least because “the icy...
Lofty Prose in a New Translation of Beowulf

Lofty Prose in a New Translation of Beowulf

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Translated by Ben J. Reinhard.  Cluny Media, 2022. Paperback, 278 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Jonathan B. Himes. To describe Ben Reinhard’s approach to his new verse translation of Beowulf, the back cover offers the following keywords:...
Saving the West By Keeping It Real

Saving the West By Keeping It Real

How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises By Spencer Klavan. Regnery, 2023. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. Charting the decline of the West is something of a popular pastime for conservatives. Even though people today live in...