by Michael Lucchese | Jun 2, 2024
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance By David T. Beito. Independent Institute, 2023. Hardcover, 404 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Franklin Delano Roosevelt ranks...
by Daniel J. Mahoney | Jun 2, 2024
Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill Edited and with an Introduction by John A. Burtka IV, Foreword by Larry P. Arnn. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Paperback, 300 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Statesmanship is an old-fashioned...
by Edward Weech | May 26, 2024
Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Edward Weech. Over the past decade, the discourse of “social justice” has ripped through the Western world, inspiring a cultural insurgency that has undermined the...
by Gregory M. Collins | May 26, 2024
Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Much as varied channels and rivulets flow from a common source of water, many conservative and classical liberal arguments in the last half fifty...
by Robert Bellafiore | May 19, 2024
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile By Fiona Maddocks. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Robert Bellafiore. In the last years of Romanov Russia, Sergei Rachmaninoff was enjoying life as a musical giant, composing such titanic hits as the...
by A. M. Juster | May 19, 2024
Painting Over the Growth Chart By Dan Rattelle. Wiseblood Books, 2024. Paperback, 63 pages, $15. Reviewed by A.M. Juster. The spirit of Robert Frost surely does not look kindly on claims that some new poet walks in his footsteps, particularly one with a fancy-pants...