Harvey Mansfield’s Long Dissent
Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell on Deaf Ears By Harvey C. Mansfield. Encounter Books, 2026. Hardcover, 152 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Adam Kissel. Like Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield, I attended a college in the Boston area. Mansfield...
Hebraic Ideas at the Founding
Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story Edited By Wilfred McClay and Stuart Halpern. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 304 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. When approaching the American Founding, it’s typical...
What We’re Reading
Luke C. Sheahan, Editor Ah, summer. The sun is for shining as books are for reading. The new imprint Creed & Culture yields two of my summer titles: Patrick Deneen’s American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls and Michael Lucchese’s...
Gordon Wood and the Verisimilitudes of Consensus History
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 By Gordon S. Wood. UNC Press, 1969/1998. Paperback, 680 pages, $45.95. The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820 Edited by Gordon S. Wood. Northeastern University Press, 1971/1990. Hardcover, 352 pages, $44.42. The...
Forming the American Imagination
The American Book of Fables By Matthew Mehan. Sophia Institute Press, 2026. Hardcover, 396 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Shaun Rieley. “If a man were permitted to make all the ballads,” wrote eighteenth-century Scottish political theorist Andrew Fletcher, “he need not...
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