A Fellow of Infinite Jest
Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man By Peter K. Andersson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a...
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Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn By Christopher Cox.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 “The light withdrawn .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...
The Winding Road that Alasdair MacIntyre Has Traveled
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography By Émile Perreau-Saussine. Translated by Nathan J. Pinkoski. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 216 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Rev. Joseph Scolaro. Editor’s Note: At the passing of the great Alasdair...
The Visionary Stigmatists and the Hope of Mercy
The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings By Paul Kengor. TAN Books, 2024. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. The crucifixion of Christ is the central event in Christianity, for, as Saint Paul says in his letter to the...
“The Last God’s Dream,” while certainly among the more daring of Kirk’s “experiments in the moral imagination”(as he described his literary efforts), is also one of the more successful at blending the author’s varied interests in politics, history, literature, and metaphysics.
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