The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 350 pages, $100. Reviewed by John G. Grove The “long” eighteenth century has proven to be one of the most fertile...
Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny. by Donald T. Crichlow. Regnery, 2021. Hardcover, 206 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips “These monsters wore the masks of liberators, hiding the malevolence of hubris that comes when men...
The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America By Victor Davis Hanson. Basic Books, 2021. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen makes a substantial...
The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis through City-State, to Megalopolis? By Ferenc Hörcher. Lexington Books, 2021. Hardback, 298 pages, $110. Reviewed by Simon P. Kennedy I grew up in a small city at the southern end of the Australian mainland. It...
A Political Philosophy of Conservatism: Prudence, Moderation, and Tradition by Ferenc Hörcher Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 Paperback, 216 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Karl Gustel Wärnberg Political theory has for the past few centuries placed justice at the center of...
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. W. W. Norton, 2021. Hardcover, 464 pages, $28. Reviewed by Carl Rollyson The title of the work under review hearkens back to The Mad Woman in the Attic: The Woman...
Transmitting Western Civilization Through Education--@darrellfalconbu reviews "On Being Civilized: A Few Lines Amid the Breakage" by Tracy Lee Simmons.
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The Divine Inspiration of Handel’s Messiah---Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg on "Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah" by Charles King. @doubledaybooks