Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy
The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...
Under the Light of the Same Communion Candle: From Russell Kirk to James Matthew Wilson
T. S. Eliot: Culture and Anarchy By James Matthew Wilson. Wiseblood Books, 2024. Paperback, 72 pages, $5. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. Matthew Arnold’s thesis in The Function of Criticism at the Present Time reads much like a response by Arnold to suggestions...
TIME Marches On… Past 100
By John Rodden. The Man of TIME’s Century Who was the most influential journalist in American history? Benjamin Franklin? Horace Greeley? Joseph Pulitzer? William Randolph Hearst? How about Edward R. Murrow? Walter Cronkite? Sufficient grounds exist for all of...
The Missing Virtue
Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue By Christopher M. Bellitto. Georgetown University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Good people around the world have encountered narcissists who love no one and nothing, not even...
Remaking Cold War Diplomacy
A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s By Anthony M. Eames. University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. Paperback, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Jason C. Phillips. Anthony M. Eames currently serves as the director...
The book’s defense of McCarthyism also fares even better over half a century after its publication, as the opening of the Soviet archives gave Americans far more information than the authors had in 1954 and made abundantly clear not only the reality of Soviet infiltration of the…
Today, we know so much more about the communist infiltration of our government and society in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than William F. Buckley, Jr. did in his early career. Yet, it turns out that Buckley and his allies were closer to the truth about domestic communism than their…