Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism By Allan J. Lichtman. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 376 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. For a decade now, the American Left has utterly failed to understand the forces behind...
Poet in the New World: Poems, 1946-1953 Czeslaw Milosz. Ecco, 2025. Hardcover, 160 pages, $28. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. When Czeslaw Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1980, he was introduced as a writer “who with uncompromising clearsightedness voices...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall By William F. Buckley, Jr. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2004. Hardcover, 212 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. As conservatives mark the centenary of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s birth, one of the most-celebrated aspects of his...
Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life By Grace Hamman. Zondervan Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A few years ago, my husband and I learned we were expecting a girl. As we were considering...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Godefroy Desjonquères on "Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age" by Chantal Delsol. @UNDPress