America First—Or Last?
America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators By Jacob Heilbrunn. Liveright, 2024. Hardcover, 264 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Paul Hollander, wherever he is, need not worry. The best book by far on an American romance with...
The Soul Always Takes Priority
Now and at the Hour of Our Death: Making Moral Decisions at the End of Life By Nikolas T. Nikas and Bruce W. Green. Ignatius, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. While washing the dishes, I listened to a shock jock philosophize about...
Early Modern Queens
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power By Leah Redmond Chang. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 512 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In the Anglophone world, there is one (and only one) Renaissance queen: Elizabeth Tudor....
The Waters of Ius and Freedom
Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy Michael C. Hawley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 264 pages, $97. Reviewed by Samuel Sprunk. In Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy, Michael Hawley joins one of the most intellectually...
Gateway to the Dissident Right
The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies By Auron MacIntyre. Regnery Publishing, 2024. Hardcover, 208 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Christopher Lightcap and Tom Sarrouf, Jr. Auron MacIntyre’s recent release of The Total State provides a fresh reading...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!