The War for the Second Age
The Fall of Númenor, And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth By J. R. R. Tolkien. William Morrow, 2022. Hardcover, 320 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Ben Reinhard. From childhood well into middle age, J. R. R. Tolkien was haunted by a recurring nightmare: a...
The Founders and the Constitution on Religious Liberty
Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses By Vincent Phillip Muñoz. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Paperback, 344 pages, $30. Reviewed by Thomas G. West. In a field crowded...
Pat Buchanan and an America First Foreign Policy
By Francis P. Sempa. Patrick J. Buchanan has announced his retirement from writing his syndicated column. He is, at age 84, reportedly working on a memoir. Long before Donald Trump strode onto the political scene, Buchanan laid the intellectual foundations for an...
The Electoral Triumph of the New Deal
Roosevelt Sweeps Nation: FDR’s 1936 Landslide and the Triumph of the Liberal Ideal By David Pietrusza. Diversion Books, 2022. Hardcover, 544 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by John Hendrickson. David Pietrusza is both a gifted historian and storyteller. He is also the “Dean”...
Ever Ancient, Ever New
The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era Edited by Matthew Nelson. Word on Fire Institute, 2022. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Scott D. Moringiello. I regularly teach “Introduction to Catholicism” at DePaul University. Of the 40...
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