The Poet Watches Birds
Instructions for Waking By Jennifer A. Hartenburg. Kelsay Books, 2026. Paperback, 70 pages, $20. Reviewed by Matt Miller. I’m not much of a birdwatcher. We keep a few feeders, and I’m always pleased to spot a bald eagle, a pileated woodpecker, or a Baltimore oriole....
John Lukács: The Consciousness—and Conscience—of an Historian
Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past Harper & Row, 1968 The Remembered Past ISI Books (Intercollegiate Studies Institute), 2005 (922-page collected volume; distinct from the 1968 book) The Hitler of History Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 A Thread of Years Yale...
Continually Revising History
The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age. Eric Voegelin Studies Yearbook 4. Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer. Brill Fink, 2025. Hardcover, 473 pages, $155. Reviewed by Lee...
G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth
Chesterton and the Philosophers Edited by Landon Loftin. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2026. Paperback, 222 pages, $28.00 Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Editor Landon Loftin has the temerity to agree and then disagree with Garry Wills, who had the temerity to declare that...
Toward an American Iliad
American Independence in Verse By Bradford Skow. Pentameter Press, 2025. Paperback, 94 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Thomas Philbrick. In Book III of the Aeneid, Aeneas lands with his men on the shores of Carthage after fleeing Troy and surviving a string of harrowing...
A Man for All Seasons
@BradleyCSWatson (@HillsdaleInDC) on "Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth" by Michael Anton. @EncounterBooks