Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life By Heidi White. Goldberry, 2025. Hardcover, 238 pages. $29.00. Reviewed by Gary Hartenburg. Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life, unites a memoir in fragments with a...
Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement By Lee Edwards. ISI Books, 2010/2019. Paperback, 224 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Last December, the venerable scholar of the conservative movement and the human force behind the Victims of Communism...
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet was one of the most...
The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought By Robert Nisbet, with a new Foreword by Luke C. Sheahan. American Philosophical Society Press, 1973/2025. Paperback, 440 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Lucía Vallejo Rodríguez. On June 3, 1973, in a...
Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic
John Grove on "Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law" by Benjamin Clark. @BloomsburyPub @Liberty_Fund
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It
James V. F. Dickey on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution" by Amy Coney Barrett. @slf_liberty @SCOTUSblog