Reconsidering Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR: A New Political Life By David T. Beito. Open Universe, 2025. Paperback, 284 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Did the presidency of Herbert Hoover and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt actually prolong what today might be remembered as the “panic of...
A Forgotten Russian Immigrant Poet in Hollywood
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood By Alexander Voloshin. Translated by Boris Dralyuk. Paul Dry Books, 2026. Paperback, 98 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. When my oldest son was little, every Saturday morning I would bundle him into the car for the hour and a...
The British Empire on Trial
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning By Nigel Biggar. William Collins, 2023. Hardcover, 480 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The urge to write history can strike almost anyone. Authors of major works of history in recent decades include people with graduate...
From the Man Who Loved America
Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla Edited by Ryan P. Williams. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 128 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If the title of this collection of essays written in memory of and tribute to the...
Here's @ubookman editor @lsheahan on academic freedom.
“If the university no longer seeks the production and dissemination of knowledge, it loses the primary justification for its academic freedom.”
More from @lsheahan here: https://civitasoutlook.pulse.ly/nezohkn6cc
"The first question, and perhaps the most pressing one when reviewing a book by @McCormickProf, is this: Even in the comparatively small world of intellectual conservatism, is there anything George isn’t doing?" - R. McKay Stangler in @ubookman