Stylist for the Ages
Chateaubriand: Selected Writings Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Imperium Press, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $8.50. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand—nobleman, adventurer, poet, and memoirist—a sampling of whose work appears in this...
Limits and the Good Life
The Virtues of Limits By David McPherson. Oxford University Press, 2022 (Paperback 2025). Paperback, 208 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. In an age that glorifies leaping past all barriers, David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of...
We’re All Epicureans Now
The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination By Aaron Alexander Zubia. University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Hardcover, 386 pages, $70. Reviewed by Kayla Bartsch. A new book by Aaron Alexander Zubia, The Political...
The Rise of the World Builders
World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics By Bruno Maçães. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 274 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The geopolitical analyst, former diplomat, Harvard PhD (under Harvey Mansfield), global columnist, and...
The Martyrs Have Not Gone Away
The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecutions of Christians in the Twenty-First Century By Robert Royal. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Hardcover, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi, C.O. Since the liturgical reforms of the Second...
Today is the 4th anniversary of @ubookman editor Gerald Russello. Please pray for him.
@KirkCenter is sponsoring its annual Russello Lecture on 12/8 at FordhamU in NYC. @JamesPanero to speak on Russell Kirk's "urbanity." More info and registration here:
