Ideas Matter Now More Than Ever

Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton Edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Daniel Pitt. Routledge, 2025. Hardcover, 246 pages, $133.  Reviewed by S.D. Whatley. Until recently, good government meant the administration of things and the management of competing...
America’s Treasured Declaration

America’s Treasured Declaration

National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America By Michael Auslin. Simon & Schuster, 2026.  Hardcover, 368 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matt Riffe. In a year in which the Declaration of Independence is front and center, it is easy to overlook...
Brent Bozell’s Prophecy of Judicial Imperium at 60

Brent Bozell’s Prophecy of Judicial Imperium at 60

The Warren Revolution: Reflections on the Consensus Society  By Brent Bozell. Arlington House, 1966. Hardcover, $49.99. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. Since the beginning of the second Trump administration, it has been a repeated practice for a lower court, through an...
Who Are the Enemies of Academic Freedom?

Who Are the Enemies of Academic Freedom?

Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times By Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman. Yale University Press, 2026.  Hardcover, 304 pages, $30. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison.  In Campus Speech and Academic Freedom: A Guide for Difficult Times, Erwin...
Who’s the Furious One? 

Who’s the Furious One? 

Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right By Laura K. Field.  Princeton University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book could have been titled in the singular, as in “furious mind,” since it is more than an occasional...