Why Public Reason Fails
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
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
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
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...
"How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death" by @ecgoligher, MD.
Reviewed by @pricerobertg. @LexhamPress
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