Making Tories and Whigs
The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Max Skjönsberg. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 350 pages, $100. Reviewed by John G. Grove The “long” eighteenth century has proven to be one of the most fertile...
Inside the Revolutionary Mind
Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny. by Donald T. Crichlow. Regnery, 2021. Hardcover, 206 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips “These monsters wore the masks of liberators, hiding the malevolence of hubris that comes when men...
The Politics of Scale
The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis through City-State, to Megalopolis? By Ferenc Hörcher. Lexington Books, 2021. Hardback, 298 pages, $110. Reviewed by Simon P. Kennedy I grew up in a small city at the southern end of the Australian mainland. It...
Lessons from Toyland: A History of Adventure
[Editor’s Note: “Lessons from Toyland” is a holiday essay to be published in three installments: Part I, December 22; Part II, December 26; and Part III, January 2, 2022. Many thanks to the imaginative author for this Christmastide contribution.] Part III By E. Wesley...
Lessons from Toyland: A History of Adventure
[Editor’s Note: “Lessons from Toyland” is a holiday essay to be published in three installments: Part I, December 22; Part II, December 26; and Part III, January 2, 2022. Many thanks to the imaginative author for this Christmastide contribution.] Part II By E. Wesley...
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