Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard. Yale University Press, 2025. Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Once upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with longing and rising...
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography By Émile Perreau-Saussine. Translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 216 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Rev. Joseph Scolaro. Editor’s Note: At the passing of the great Alasdair...
Teaching the Virtues By David Hein. Mecosta House, 2025. Paperback, 222 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Aristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further questions: What...
Outside The Gates of Eden By David Middleton. Measure Press, 2023. Hardcover, 114 pages, $25. Reviewed by Madeleine Austin. David Middleton’s Outside the Gates of Eden is a collection of formal poems rooted in contemplation of the Book of Genesis. What does it mean to...
Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License By Brad Littlejohn. B&H Academic, 2025. Paperback, 192 pages, $22.99. Reviewed by Andrew Fowler. Freedom could be Modernity’s most overused yet least understood word. In an American context,...
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