Finding the Historical Vergil

Finding the Historical Vergil

Vergil: The Poet’s Life By Sarah Ruden. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 200 pages, $26. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Vergil is the greatest Roman poet. We know him as the poet of the Aeneid, the Eclogues, and the Georgics. Vergil is also Dante’s guide through hell...
Fighting for Free Speech and Academic Freedom

Fighting for Free Speech and Academic Freedom

You Can’t Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms By Keith E. Whittington. Polity, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Donald Downs. Keith Whittington has long been a leading prolific scholar of constitutional law and American...
America First—Or Last?

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

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

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

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...