by Francis P. Sempa | Aug 14, 2022
By Francis P. Sempa. When James Burnham formally left the Socialist Workers Party in 1940 (intellectually, he had left it the year before), he did not immediately embrace the conservatism of his American Mercury, The Freeman, and National Review years. Burnham instead...
by David Weinberger | Aug 14, 2022
How and How Not to Be Happy J. Budziszewski. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by David Weinberger. “Most people virtually agree,” wrote Aristotle, that happiness “is the highest of all the goods pursued in action.” But then, as now, people...
by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. | Aug 7, 2022
Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can’t Say or Even Think by Harley Price. FGF Books, 2022. Hardcover, 326 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. After reading about Gnosticism, which is Greek for Know-it-all-ism, for years, all I could...
by Joseph Tuttle | Aug 7, 2022
War and Peace: A Fulton Sheen Anthology by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Edited by Al Smith. Sophia Institute Press, 2022. Paperback, 416 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Joseph Tuttle. War and Peace is a collection of three series of radio addresses given by the great...
by Gregory M. Collins | Jul 31, 2022
Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America By Rachel S. Ferguson and Marcus M. Witcher. Emancipation Books, 2022. Paperback, 464 pages, $18.00. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Perhaps the first book ever published to cite...
by Auguste Meyrat | Jul 31, 2022
Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England By Joseph Pearce. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 384 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. England is a Catholic country. Its culture, its politics, and its very heart is Catholic. At least, this is the case made...
by Dwight Sutherland, Jr. | Jul 24, 2022
by Dwight Sutherland, Jr. Seldom does one encounter a novel which offers such insight into today’s events. This is particularly true when the novel is based on events that happened over a century ago. Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian author who was born in Kiev in...
by Bruce P. Frohnen | Jul 24, 2022
Common Good Constitutionalism by Adrian Vermeule. Polity, 2022. Hardcover, 270 pages, $59.95. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Thirty years on from its victory over Soviet communism, liberal individualism has shown itself to be a spent force. The drive to “liberate”...
by David G. Bonagura, Jr. | Jul 17, 2022
Infinite Regress: A Novel by Joshua Hren. Angelico Press, 2022. Paperback, 296 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. “What he taught me was literally revolutionary in a way that set me free from the last hang-ups of that pablum Mom fed us and wanted us to...
by John Grove | Jul 17, 2022
Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by John G. Grove In the introduction to The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk defended his choice of Burke as the originator of modern conservatism: “If one...
