A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues

A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Penguin, 2021. Hardcover, 480 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare. David Cutler and Ed Glaeser’s new book, Survival of the City (Penguin, 2021), is an oddity. It...
Kennan: The Fallible Prophet We Need

Kennan: The Fallible Prophet We Need

George Kennan for Our Time  By Lee Congdon. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa. The United States in the early 21st century, Lee Congdon writes, suffers from a wayward internationalist foreign policy...
Pat Buchanan and an America First Foreign Policy

Pat Buchanan and an America First Foreign Policy

By Francis P. Sempa. Patrick J. Buchanan has announced his retirement from writing his syndicated column. He is, at age 84, reportedly working on a memoir. Long before Donald Trump strode onto the political scene, Buchanan laid the intellectual foundations for an...
Why America’s Foreign Policy Needs John Quincy Adams 

Why America’s Foreign Policy Needs John Quincy Adams 

America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams By Angelo M. Codevilla. Encounter Books, 2022.  Hardcover, $30.99, 288 pages. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg. Angelo Codevilla is no longer with us, but his erudite wisdom and earthy wit...
Wilson’s (Self) Determination

Wilson’s (Self) Determination

Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe By Larry Wolff. Stanford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 304 pages, from $30. Reviewed by Kevin J. McNamara This work is a species of modern intellectual history in the tradition of Orientalism, by Edward W....