The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898 By Dominic Green. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chilton Williamson, Jr. “We live,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in 1963, “in an unbelieving age but one which is...
U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer
No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers By Robert Lighthizer. Broadside Books, 2023. Hardcover, 384 pages, $32.00. Review by Frank Filocomo. Ever since the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump in 2016, the issue of...
Making Sense of Libertarianism
The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism By Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardback, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Alexander William Salter. There are many books that explain...
Constantine versus the U.S. Constitution
The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past By Paul J. Gutacker. Oxford University Press, 2023. Paperback, 264 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Glenn A. Moots. Paul Gutacker’s The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the...
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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."