Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age By Chantal Delsol. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 154 pages, $30. Reviewed by Godefroy Desjonquères. Reading Chantal Delsol’s Prosperity and Torment in France as a French person is a...
Early English Tracts on Commerce Edited by John Ramsay McCulloch. CL Press, 2024. Paperback, 693 pages, $19.50. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) doesn’t roll off the zealous tongues of free marketeers as smoothly as Adam Smith, but he...
Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War By Miles Smith. The Davenant Press, 2024. Paperback, 350 pages, $42.95. Reviewed by Glenn Moots. Beginning in the 1970s, American Christians sensing a cultural shift engaged in a war of...
McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr., his one-time Yale debate partner, National...
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...
And I Will Go to the Altar of God
Jesse Russell reviews "On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular" by Jonathan Sheehan. @PrincetonUPress
