A Fellow of Infinite Jest

A Fellow of Infinite Jest

Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man By Peter K. Andersson. Princeton University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 224 pages, $27.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;  Am an attendant lord, one that will do  To swell a...
Buckley at 100: The Redhunter, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Buckley at 100: The Redhunter, William F. Buckley, Jr.

McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm View of the House Committee on Un-American Activities By William F. Buckley, Jr....
Buckley at 100: The Redhunter, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Buckley at 100: Countering the Communist Threat

McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr., his one-time Yale debate partner, National...
Reason Reimagined: Ross Douthat’s Case for Belief 

Reason Reimagined: Ross Douthat’s Case for Belief 

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious By Ross Douthat. Zondervan, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Luca Frumento. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg explaining how Europe came to forget Christianity’s deep...
Evidence-based Answers for Life’s Great Mysteries

Evidence-based Answers for Life’s Great Mysteries

Fr. Spitzer’s Universe: Exploring Life’s Big Questions By Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. EWTN Publishing Inc., 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what Original Sin is? Or whether there is evidence for the human soul? Or why...
Unmasking the Ideological Lie

Unmasking the Ideological Lie

The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now  By Daniel J. Mahoney.  Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 168 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. At the beginning of The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel J. Mahoney points...