Still Having Trouble with Gender
Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions By Alex Byrne. Polity Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. America is confused about gender, and MIT philosophy professor Alex Byrne is here to help. Earlier this year, Byrne faced down...
Kristen Waggoner Awarded 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prize for Advancing Free Speech and Expression
Kristen Waggoner Awarded 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prize for Advancing Free Speech and Expression The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal today announced that Kristen Waggoner, CEO, President, and Chief Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), has been named...
Eric Voegelin’s Later Thought
Eric Voegelin’s Late Meditations and Essays. Critical Commentary Companions. Edited by Michael Franz. St. Augustine’s Press, 2023. Paperback, 375 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. One of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, Eric...
Mark Twain Revisited
Mark Twain By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025. Hardcover, 1,200 pages, $45. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Let us stipulate at the outset that Ron Chernow has indeed covered the Twain waterfront in this massive volume. How could he not? Twain appears “Afloat” in Part...
Restocking Conservatives’ Bookshelves
13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read) By Christopher J. Scalia. Regnery, 2025. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Earlier this summer, The New York Times published yet another jeremiad on fiction-reading men going the way...
Educational Counterrevolution
Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation By Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin. Broadside, 2022. Hardcover, 288 pages, $32. Reviewed by John Kainer. Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps most famous for the words he has a madman speak in his book, The...
The Moral Imagination of Jane Austen
The Moral Imagination of Jane Austen Leta Sundet, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of English at Hillsdale College Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm ETDates: November 25; December 2, 9, and 16Faculty: Dr. Leta Sundet Location: OnlineTuition: $100 (free for students, teachers,...
Political Economy Before Adam Smith
Early English Tracts on Commerce Edited by John Ramsay McCulloch. CL Press, 2024. Paperback, 693 pages, $19.50. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) doesn’t roll off the zealous tongues of free marketeers as smoothly as Adam Smith, but he...
Science and Meaning: Parallel Tracks?
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence By Samuel T. Wilkinson. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Samuel T. Wilkinson, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has written a...
A Christmas Carol is great literature. Ghosts are a must for Christmas.