Why Public Reason Fails

Why Public Reason Fails

by | Oct 8, 2023

Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory By Ryan R. Holston.  State University of New York Press, 2023. Paperback, 218 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Political theorists have recently devoted a great amount of...
The Inadequacy of Burke in Part

The Inadequacy of Burke in Part

by | Aug 20, 2023

Edmund Burke and the Perennial Battle, 1789–1797 Edited by Daniel B. Klein and Dominic Pino. CL Press, 2022. Paperback, 172 pages, $9. Reviewed by William F. Byrne. Edmund Burke has always been recognized as an important thinker, and—at least by some, and in some...
Communism: Product of the Fallen West

Communism: Product of the Fallen West

by | Jul 30, 2023

Communism and the Conscience of the West By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Cluny Media, 2021. Paperback, 227 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Joseph Tuttle. Written only a few years following World War II, Communism and the Conscience of the West surveys the philosophy of...
Bolshevism, Truth, and Ancient Greek Philosophy

Bolshevism, Truth, and Ancient Greek Philosophy

by | Apr 3, 2022

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Redux By Pedro Blas González Beginning in the early twentieth century, Bolshevism’s incessant propaganda and disinformation campaigns have made it next to impossible, even for thoughtful persons, to separate appearance from reality...
Ignorant Armies

Ignorant Armies

by | Jun 6, 2021

Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters by Deborah Stone. W. W. Norton, 2021. Hardcover, 291 pages, $27. Reviewed by Michial Farmer “What, then, is truth?” Nietzsche sneers in his essay “On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense.” A mobile army of...