Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution

Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin. Basic Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Something has gone wrong with America. Even among the politically disengaged, one can detect a...
The U.S. Constitution and Slavery 

The U.S. Constitution and Slavery 

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding  By Simon Gilhooley. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Paperback, 283 pages, $29.99. Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness...
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law

How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Stephen B. Presser. Ideas, they...
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law

Recovering the Founders’ Constitutional Order

The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Bradley C. S. Watson. The...
Remembering Our Unruly Character

Remembering Our Unruly Character

Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People  By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister. Lexington Books, 2022. Hardcover, 208 pages, $95. Reviewed by Ryan R. Holston. Truth-telling with regard to historical life is never a question of laying bare “the...