An Antidote to Today’s Malaise

An Antidote to Today’s Malaise

A Time for Wisdom: Knowledge, Detachment, Tranquility, Transcendence By Paul T. McLaughlin and Mark R. McMinn. Templeton Press, 2022. Hardcover, 268 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. It is one of the great paradoxes of modernity that the more society advances...
Returning to the Heights of Statesmanship

Returning to the Heights of Statesmanship

The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation  By Daniel J. Mahoney. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $30.99.  Reviewed by Zachary K. German. “Let us return to the heights,” Daniel J. Mahoney begins the concluding...
Reclaiming Protestantism At Its Best

Reclaiming Protestantism At Its Best

Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction Edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich. The Davenant Press, 2022. Paperback, 270 pages, $26.95. Review by John Ehrett. A popular shibboleth of traditionalist history writing is the notion of a direct line...
On the Fall of Fated Men

On the Fall of Fated Men

The Anglo-Saxons. A History of the Beginnings of England: 400-1066 By Marc Morris. Hutchinson, 2021. Hardcover, 528 pages, $100. Reviewed by Timothy D. Lusch. “Historically speaking, the name ‘Anglo-Saxon’ has more connection to white hoods than boar-decorated...
Rights, Power, and Democracy Among the Anti-Federalists

Rights, Power, and Democracy Among the Anti-Federalists

An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates  By Michael J. Faber. University Press of Kansas, 2019.  Hardcover, 536 pages, $55. Reviewed by Adam L. Tate. The battle over ratification of the United States Constitution between...
History Is Never Certain

History Is Never Certain

The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville By Olivier Zunz. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 472 pages, $35. Reviewed by Sarah Gustafson. In years since Alexis de Tocqueville’s death in 1859, his popularity has ebbed and flowed...