Why Public Reason Fails

Why Public Reason Fails

by | Oct 8, 2023

Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory By Ryan R. Holston.  State University of New York Press, 2023. Paperback, 218 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Political theorists have recently devoted a great amount of...
Friends, Countrymen, Romans

Friends, Countrymen, Romans

by | Oct 1, 2023

Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging By Dean Hammer. Cambridge University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 262 pages, $110.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Since its inception, America has been many things, but, in a certain sense, it has always...
A Time for Restoration

A Time for Restoration

by | Sep 17, 2023

Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton  By Daniel J. Mahoney. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022.  Paperback, 160 pages, $20.00 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The prolific author and scholar Daniel J. Mahoney has penned...
U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer

U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer

by | Sep 10, 2023

No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers By Robert Lighthizer. Broadside Books, 2023. Hardcover, 384 pages, $32.00. Review by Frank Filocomo. Ever since the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump in 2016, the issue of...
The Perennial Relevance of Edmund Burke

The Perennial Relevance of Edmund Burke

by | Aug 20, 2023

Edmund Burke and the Perennial Battle, 1789–1797 Edited by Daniel B. Klein and Dominic Pino. CL Press, 2022. Paperback, 172 pages, $9. Reviewed by André Gushurst-Moore. Single-volume selections from Burke’s writings frequently subsist on some scheme, relating both to...