Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena By James Hankins. Harvard University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 448 pages, $55. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. We live in a Neo-Machiavellian age. Gone are the “End of History”...
The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis By Karen Swallow Prior. Brazos Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by James E. Hartley. “All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendancy over...
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II By Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $30. Ian Buruma published The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II early last year. The University...
Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders By Michael Barone. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 228 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Christian Sellar. This book is the fruit of the labor of a journalist and political...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing By Thomas Harding. Pegasus Books, 2023. Hardcover, 336 pages, $29.95. Thomas Harding published The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing last year. The University Bookman...
Continuing in our celebration of the centenary of "Democracy and Leadership" by Irving Babbitt, reviewer Claes G. Ryn discusses the hostile reactions to Babbitt's views in his time.