Against the New Deal
New Deal Rebels: An Anthology of Critics of the New Deal Edited by Amity Shlaes. American Institute for Economic Research, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $18. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. From the vantage point of roughly seven decades of depression-less prosperity, Amity...
History of the American Revolution Well Told
The Diplomacy of the American Revolution By Samuel Flagg Bemis. Introduction by Ben Judge. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Kevin R. C. Gutzman. Samuel Flagg Bemis was a master of American diplomatic history, a field that has now...
Virtue in the Age of Neo-Machiavellianism
Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena By James Hankins. Harvard University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 448 pages, $55. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. We live in a Neo-Machiavellian age. Gone are the “End of History”...
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...
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