Recovering the Idea of Statesmanship
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...
Sowell’s Summary Argument
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...
Vanquishing the Social Justice Warriors
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...
A Gentleman Out of Moscow
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...
Taking the Road Less Traveled
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...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."