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...
Draining the Swamp
You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State By David Bernhardt. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. In recent years the term “administrative state” has become part of our common parlance. The...
After Liberalism…Faith?
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism By John Gray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 192 pages, $27. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Reviewing one of John Gray’s recent books is an adventurous undertaking. Rather than straightforward histories, or...
Good Economics on a Human Scale
The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good By Alexander William Salter. The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Paperback, 238 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Alexander Salter has written an important book,...
Russell Kirk's intro to Democracy and Leadership is itself a classic.
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