Marxism and the Rising Generation
NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It By Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Cornell Gorka. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover 332 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. NextGen Marxism is one of the most informative and relevant books I have read in years. It...
Cracking the Code to Civilization
The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd Edition) By Waller R. Newell. Independently Published, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $14.99. Reviewed by Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Waller R. Newell’s The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd...
Celebrating the 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prizes
Celebrating the 2025 Richard D. McLellan Prizes On November 19, 2025, the Russell Kirk Center gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. with a full crowd for the second annual Richard D. McLellan Free Speech Prizes gala honoring 2025 grand prize winner...
Knights, Heroes, and Patriots: Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination
Knights, Heroes, and Patriots: Howard Pyle and the Shaping of the American Moral Imagination About your Instructor:Dr. David P. Deavel (Ph.D., Fordham) is an associate professor and chairman of the department of theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston,...
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 2)
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 2) Meet the Instructors:Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
Humane Literature and the Divided Soul
The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life By Heidi White. Goldberry, 2025. Hardcover, 238 pages. $29.00. Reviewed by Gary Hartenburg. Heidi White’s debut book, The Divided Soul: Duty and Desire in Literature and Life, unites a memoir in fragments with a...
Antisemitism, a Foreign Tradition
Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 1)
Traditional Conservatism and Classical Liberalism (Section 1) Meet the Instructors:Luke C. Sheahan is associate professor of political science at Duquesne University, a senior affiliate in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the...
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