The White Guard: Life Imitating Art, Yet Again
by Dwight Sutherland, Jr. Seldom does one encounter a novel which offers such insight into today’s events. This is particularly true when the novel is based on events that happened over a century ago. Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian author who was born in Kiev in...
Common Good Credentialism
Common Good Constitutionalism by Adrian Vermeule. Polity, 2022. Hardcover, 270 pages, $59.95. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Thirty years on from its victory over Soviet communism, liberal individualism has shown itself to be a spent force. The drive to “liberate”...
Nationalizing Conservatism
Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by John G. Grove In the introduction to The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk defended his choice of Burke as the originator of modern conservatism: “If one...
Ersatz Pagans and Corrupted Christians in Delsol’s La fin de la Chrétienité
By Brendan Case This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. Chantal Delsol’s provocative essay condenses a number of themes...
Chantal Delsol and the End of the Christian World: A Symposium
La fin de la Chrétienté Chantal Delsol CERF, 2021 Paperback, 176 pages, 16,00€ This past January 30th and 31st, 2022, the Abigail Adams Institute, First Things, and the Zephyr Institute hosted a number of prominent scholars and writers in Cambridge, MA, for a...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.