The Character of the People is the Character of the Regime
Sparta’s Sicilian Proxy War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 418-413 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 376 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by David Talcott. “In their haste to identify a formula for politics that would be applicable to all...
The Dangers of Modern Nationalism
A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 By Carlton J. H. Hayes. Harper Collins, 1941. Reviewed by John Rossi. When I started teaching an introductory European History course over 60 years ago, I chose as my textbook Carlton Hayes’s two volume A Political and Cultural...
The Original Struggle Between Globalism and America First
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War By H. W. Brands. Doubleday, 2024. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. With the first Trump administration still a lively memory and a second Trump presidency just getting...
Sailing East
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...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.