The Rise of the World Builders

The Rise of the World Builders

World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics By Bruno Maçães. Cambridge University Press, 2025.  Hardcover, 274 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The geopolitical analyst, former diplomat, Harvard PhD (under Harvey Mansfield), global columnist, and...
Principle and Pragmatism in Law

Principle and Pragmatism in Law

The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties  By Alan Dershowitz.  Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99 Reviewed by Cary Federman.  In the late 1960s, Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter...
Reagan vs. the Air Traffic Controllers

Reagan vs. the Air Traffic Controllers

Ronald Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers  By Andrew E. Busch. University Press of Kansas, 2024. Paperback, 180 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Rare has been the day since President Trump was sworn in for his second term that Elon...
The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Intrinsic Argument for Free Speech

The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage By Jonathan Turley. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan.  Free speech lurks amid many of the controversies of the last several centuries. From Charles I’s infamous...
The Conservative Resurgence

The Conservative Resurgence

Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay Edited by Arthur Milikh. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 240 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Shaun Rieley. In recent years, it has become common on the Right to ask rhetorically, “what has...