The Making of a Cold War President
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956 by Fredrik Logevall. Random House, 2020. Hardcover, 792 pages, $40. Reviewed by Jason K. Duncan Last year, 2020, marked the sixtieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s election as president in 1960. Given the heated...
Diagnosing a New Despotism
Who Rules? Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Roger Kimball. Encounter Books, 2020. Hardcover, 128 pages, $22.50 Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks Who Rules? is a valuable collection of essays by some of today’s finest...
Fusionism, Gratitude, and the New Right
The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order By Donald J. Devine. Encounter Books, 2021. Hardcover, 384 pages, $32. Reviewed by James Davenport The future of conservatism in America remains a question as members of an emerging new right and an older guard of...
A Singular Universal
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene. W. W. Norton, 2021. Hardcover, xvi + 591 pp., $40. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz Jean-Paul Sartre once classified Gustave Flaubert as a “singular universal.” For Sartre, such a writer’s oeuvre becomes a...
Ordinary Time
The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity by Paul Mariani Paraclete Press, 2019 Paperback, 240 pages, $25 Review by Daniel James Sundahl There’s a moment in ordinary time when Dr. William Carlos Williams writes of passing a young...
@ubookman The series seeks to advance understanding of the significance of the American founding to our times through fresh, concise presentations. The following piece by @ubookman editor @lsheahan sets the stage: https://buff.ly/Aakgs0W
Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, @ubookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and the constitutional order it secured.