Lincoln and the Democratic Cause

Lincoln and the Democratic Cause

Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment By Allen C. Guelzo. Knopf, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. On the southern border of my college’s campus is a statue of a Union soldier. It’s the oldest such monument...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Frank Tallis

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Frank Tallis

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind By Frank Tallis. St. Martin’s Press, 2024. Hardcover, 496 pages, $31. Frank Tallis published Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind early in 2024. The University Bookman...
America First—Or Last?

America First—Or Last?

America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators By Jacob Heilbrunn.  Liveright, 2024. Hardcover, 264 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg.  Paul Hollander, wherever he is, need not worry. The best book by far on an American romance with...
Early Modern Queens

Early Modern Queens

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power By Leah Redmond Chang.  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 512 pages, $35.00.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In the Anglophone world, there is one (and only one) Renaissance queen: Elizabeth Tudor....
The Waters of Ius and Freedom

The Waters of Ius and Freedom

Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy Michael C. Hawley. Oxford University Press, 2022.  Hardcover, 264 pages, $97. Reviewed by Samuel Sprunk. In Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy, Michael Hawley joins one of the most intellectually...