A Very American Historian
C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian By James C. Cobb. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. Hardcover, 504 pages, $37.50. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg. Should C. Vann Woodward be regarded as America’s historian? Given his career and this biography, a more...
Arguing the Unarguable Thing
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing By Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis. Regnery Publishing, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicole M. King. It is common practice for professors (or teaching assistants) of English...
Why We Need Beauty
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art By Michael B. Gill. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 248 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. Now neglected in the Western canon, Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions,...
What Makes a Classic?
Wit’s Treasury: Renaissance England and the Classics By Stephen Orgel. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Hardcover, 216 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by John Tuttle. What is a classic? It’s a provocative question for the literary-bent mind. Just what...
Where Is Home?
A Song to Keep: A Kinship of Poems and Drawings By Olivia Findlay and Domenica de Ferranti. Scotland Street Press, 2021. Hardcover, 112 pages, $35. Reviewed by Ashlee Cowles. One of the most prominent and compelling themes in literature, including poetry, is the...
Editor, @lsheahan, on the @lawliberty podcast with @JohnGGrove1 discussing new edition of Robert Nisbet's classic, The Social Philosophers. @AmPhilSociety Press.
Me, on a new edition of ROBERT NISBET's THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS, out with @AmPhilSociety Press, on the @lawliberty Podcast with @JohnGGrove1.
I enjoyed the opportunity to interview @lsheahan for the @LawLiberty Podcast on the new edition of Robert Nisbet's The Social Philosophers. Give it a listen and subscribe at Apple/Spotify etc...