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...
Remaking Cold War Diplomacy
A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s By Anthony M. Eames. University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. Paperback, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Jason C. Phillips. Anthony M. Eames currently serves as the director...
"Don Quixote makes life the protagonist. The affirmation of life is truly Don Quixote’s quest. The venerable knight-errant seeks more than life from his life." — Pedro Blas Gonzalez.
Melissa Lane is one of many left-liberal thinkers seeking a middle ground between “canceling” great thinkers and those in the New Right who seek to co-opt them for their postliberal vision. - Jesse Russell