Happy with Aquinas
Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Happiness and Ultimate Purposeby J. Budziszewski. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Paperback, 704 pages, $40. Reviewed by Jesse Russell St. Thomas Aquinas has been one of the principal intellectual mainstays of post-World...
Diaries of a Poor Judge of Character
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume Two): 1938–43 Edited by Simon Heffer. Hutchinson, 2021. Hardcover, 1120 pages, $45.90. Reviewed by John Rossi “Chips” Channon was born in Chicago in 1897 to a moderately wealthy family. During the First World War he served in...
Originalism on American Terms
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding by Robert R. Reilly. Ignatius Press, 2020. Hardcover, 384 pages, $28. Originalism’s Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution by Lee J. Strang. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paperback, 326 pages, $35....
A Prodigal Search for Self and the South
Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South By Rick Bragg. Knopf, 2020. Hardcover, 256 pages, $26.95 Reviewed by Owen Edwards Where I Come From by Rick Bragg was published a few months before Uprooted by Grace Olmstead, and has strong resonances with it. Bragg’s...
A Crisis and the Heroic March of Medicine
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History by Thomas Helling, M.D. Pegasus Books, 2022. Hardcover, 496 pages, $32. Reviewed by Karl C. Shaffenburg The inscription on Dr. Thomas Helling’s book, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History...
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...