By Dermot Quinn. This essay was delivered as a memorial lecture at Fordham University, New York, on November 15, 2023. One of the easiest ways of remembering Gerald Russello is to listen to him. So here he is, in that powerful, reasonable, humane, wise voice of his,...
On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World By Sean Connolly. Basic Books, 2022. Hardcover, 528 pp. $35. Reviewed by John P. Rossi. Writing about the Irish diaspora, especially as it relates to those Irish who emigrated to the United States, has...
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism By Alan S. Kahan. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 528 pages, $45. Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century By Joshua L. Cherniss. Princeton University Press, 2021....
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence (Jewish Lives) By Joseph Berger. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 360 pages, $26. Joseph Berger published Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence early last year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley caught up with...
Radical Betrayal: How Liberals & Neoconservatives Are Wrecking American Exceptionalism By Anders W. Edwardsson. Defiance Press & Publishing, 2023. Paperback, 330 pages, $17.89. Reviewed by John Hendrickson. Anders Edwardsson in Radical Betrayal: How Liberals...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."