Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change

Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change

Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789 by E. Wesley Reynolds III. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Cloth, 264 pages, $115.00. Reviewed by James E. Person Jr. Near the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson famously referred to coffee as “the favorite drink of the...
James Burnham: The Partisan Review Years

James Burnham: The Partisan Review Years

By Francis P. Sempa. When James Burnham formally left the Socialist Workers Party in 1940 (intellectually, he had left it the year before), he did not immediately embrace the conservatism of his American Mercury, The Freeman, and National Review years. Burnham instead...
Quo Vadis, America?

Quo Vadis, America?

War and Peace: A Fulton Sheen Anthology by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Edited by Al Smith. Sophia Institute Press, 2022. Paperback, 416 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Joseph Tuttle. War and Peace is a collection of three series of radio addresses given by the great...
Civil Society and the Marketplace

Civil Society and the Marketplace

Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America By Rachel S. Ferguson and Marcus M. Witcher. Emancipation Books, 2022. Paperback, 464 pages, $18.00. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Perhaps the first book ever published to cite...
Underneath It All, England Is a Catholic Country

Underneath It All, England Is a Catholic Country

Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England By Joseph Pearce. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 384 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. England is a Catholic country. Its culture, its politics, and its very heart is Catholic.  At least, this is the case made...