Blue Walls Falling Down By Joshua Hren Angelico Press, 2024. Paperback, 436 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Can love reconcile America’s partisan divide between left and right, between racially obsessed identity politics and radicalized nativist...
Thinking Through Shakespeare By David Womersley. Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In England ideas run wild and pasture on emotions; instead of thinking with our feelings (a very different thing) we corrupt our...
The Incredible Adventure of Passer the Sparrow By Paul Krause. Resource Publications, 2025. Paperback, 94 pages, $12. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. As any parent of reading-age children can attest, it is difficult to find good books for them. Beyond the challenge of...
The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium By J. R. R. Tolkien. William Morrow, 2025. Hardcover, 144 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by Ben Reinhard. When Russell Kirk decried the automobile as “a mechanical Jacobin”—a revolutionary naturally destructive of...
Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays By Dana Gioia. Paul Dry Books, 2024. Paperback, 272 pages, $21.95. Reviewed by Oliver Spivey. In his essay titled “Reading,” W. H. Auden sets forth what he views as the special duties of the literary critic: What is the function...
Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic
John Grove on "Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law" by Benjamin Clark. @BloomsburyPub @Liberty_Fund
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It
James V. F. Dickey on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution" by Amy Coney Barrett. @slf_liberty @SCOTUSblog