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...
How to Love What is Permanent
Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul From Mediocrity By Joshua Gibbs. Circe Institute, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28.99 Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. A significant part of Russell Kirk’s legacy is that he reminded moderns to seek and cherish the “permanent things”...
A Measured Look at an Unsettling Ideology
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice By Adam Kirsch. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. Hardcover, 160 pages, $24.99 Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The term “settler colonialism” has exploded in popularity. According to the Google Books NGram Viewer,...
Stylist for the Ages
Chateaubriand: Selected Writings Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Imperium Press, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $8.50. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand—nobleman, adventurer, poet, and memoirist—a sampling of whose work appears in this...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of