Two Cities: The Public and the Private

Two Cities: The Public and the Private

by | Oct 15, 2023

A reflection on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities By Igor Damous. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every...
Remembering Our Unruly Character

Remembering Our Unruly Character

by | Oct 8, 2023

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...
The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder

The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder

by | Sep 17, 2023

The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898 By Dominic Green. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chilton Williamson, Jr. “We live,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in 1963, “in an unbelieving age but one which is...
Non-Western Conservatism

Non-Western Conservatism

by | Aug 13, 2023

Russian Conservatism By Paul Robinson. Northern Illinois University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 300 pages, $41.95. Reviewed by Matthew Slaboch. On February 24, 2022, Russian military forces under the order of President Vladimir Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine,...