The Case Against Buckley

The Case Against Buckley

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus.  Random House, 2025.  Hardcover, 1040 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by James Panero. Less than a mile separates the Catholic cemetery of Saint Bernard, the burial site of William F. Buckley Jr., off...
Mark Twain Revisited

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...
Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker

Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker

The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet By Stephen Wade. Pen & Sword History, 2025. Hardcover, 256 pages, $39.95/£25.00. Reviewed by Adam Schwartz. In 2011, A. N. Wilson numbered Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) among authors...
The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder

The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder

The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer  By Daniel J. Flynn.  Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 440 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. One rainy afternoon in June, I finally got around to reading the first section of Confessions of...
A Fellow of Infinite Jest

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...