The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. If we go back fifty years to 1974, one might say it was annus horribilis for America. The US was in a grip of an energy crisis, the Presidency of Richard...
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Let me begin with what may seem an odd claim: the American Constitution is a central concern of Russell Kirk’s vast body of work. This statement is...
Alfred Dreyfus The Man at the Center of the Affair By Maurice Samuels. Yale University Press, 2024. Paperback, 224 pages, $20. Maurice Samuels published Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair early this year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley...
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company, 1550-1650 By David Howarth. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 480 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. One of the most popular phrases among Marxists during the long reign of Barack H. Obama was...
By John Rodden. The Man of TIME’s Century Who was the most influential journalist in American history? Benjamin Franklin? Horace Greeley? Joseph Pulitzer? William Randolph Hearst? How about Edward R. Murrow? Walter Cronkite? Sufficient grounds exist for all of...
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!