The Christian and Classical Roots of American Order
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan. Nearly a half...
Recovering the Founders’ Constitutional Order
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Bradley C. S. Watson. The...
Natural Law in the Protestant Tradition
A Humanist in Reformation Politics: Philipp Melanchthon on Political Philosophy and Natural Law By Mads Langballe Jensen. Brill, 2019. Hardcover, 222 pages, $130.00. Reviewed by E.J. Hutchinson. It was not very long ago that answering the question of what Protestants...
Real Natural Law
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution By Hadley Arkes. Regnery Gateway, 2023. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hadley Arkes is a prophet in a materialist and positivist age, and he prophesies at length...
Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.