Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence By Samuel T. Wilkinson. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Samuel T. Wilkinson, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has written a...
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...
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...
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 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...
Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic
John Grove on "Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law" by Benjamin Clark. @BloomsburyPub @Liberty_Fund
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It
James V. F. Dickey on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution" by Amy Coney Barrett. @slf_liberty @SCOTUSblog
