Editors’ Summer Reading
Spring is drawing to a close. Summer is upon us. That means it’s time for summer reading. Luke C. Sheahan, Editor Once final grades are submitted, and I’ve rested, I begin my trek through a summer booklist. At the top is always Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I read it...
Reagan vs. the Air Traffic Controllers
Ronald Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers By Andrew E. Busch. University Press of Kansas, 2024. Paperback, 180 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Rare has been the day since President Trump was sworn in for his second term that Elon...
Reappraising Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn By Christopher Cox. Simon and Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. “The light withdrawn . . .” The line is borrowed from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Ichabod.” Woodrow Wilson as...
Lessons from Sparta
Sparta’s Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In Sparta’s Third Attic War, Paul H. Rahe continues his multi-volume history of...
The Character of the People is the Character of the Regime
Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 376 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by David Talcott. “In their haste to identify a formula for politics that would be applicable to all...
The book’s defense of McCarthyism also fares even better over half a century after its publication, as the opening of the Soviet archives gave Americans far more information than the authors had in 1954 and made abundantly clear not only the reality of Soviet infiltration of the…
Today, we know so much more about the communist infiltration of our government and society in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than William F. Buckley, Jr. did in his early career. Yet, it turns out that Buckley and his allies were closer to the truth about domestic communism than their…