Geopolitics and the Making of the Modern World

Geopolitics and the Making of the Modern World

by | Sep 7, 2025

The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars and the Making of the Modern World By Hal Brands. W.W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 320 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by John P. Rossi. Hal Brands, author of a handful of books on foreign policy and a professor at Johns Hopkins (as well...
Between Greatness and Hubris 

Between Greatness and Hubris 

by | Sep 7, 2025

Gems of American History: The Lecturer’s Art By Walter A. McDougall. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 336 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Nicholas Callaghan. As we rapidly approach the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, a question remains at the fore...
Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

by | Aug 31, 2025

Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War By Miles Smith. The Davenant Press, 2024. Paperback, 350 pages, $42.95. Reviewed by Glenn Moots. Beginning in the 1970s, American Christians sensing a cultural shift engaged in a war of...
The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder

The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder

by | Aug 17, 2025

The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer  By Daniel J. Flynn.  Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 440 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. One rainy afternoon in June, I finally got around to reading the first section of Confessions of...
A Fellow of Infinite Jest

A Fellow of Infinite Jest

by | Aug 17, 2025

Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Man By Peter K. Andersson. Princeton University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 224 pages, $27.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;  Am an attendant lord, one that will do  To swell a...