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
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Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn By Christopher Cox.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 “The light withdrawn .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...
"A more than occasional glutton for punishment, Field dips into and out of conservative conferences, the better to enable herself to assert herself into this story. No doubt those on the left will be mostly pleased by what they read in these pages, while those on the right will
[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of