Preparing for Leisure

Preparing for Leisure

The Leisure Ethic: The End of Work and a Return to Virtue By David Edward Tabachnick. Toronto University Press, 2026. Paperback, 288 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Robert Rich. In August of 2014, the science educator and YouTuber CGP Grey made the case, in a video titled...
Liberal Education and Its Critics

Liberal Education and Its Critics

Liberal Education and Democracy By Bob Pepperman Taylor. Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 208 pages, $40. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. Ater an even 100 pages, Professor Taylor arrives at the conclusion to his very fine Liberal Education and Democracy. It reads...
Shakespeare Forever

Shakespeare Forever

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...
What Plato Meant

What Plato Meant

Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political By Melissa Lane. Princeton University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 480 pages, $49.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In October of 1993, a trial took place in Colorado regarding Colorado Amendment 2, a ballot measure that...
Why Cervantes’ Don Quixote Matters

Why Cervantes’ Don Quixote Matters

By Pedro Blas Gonzalez. Plainness, Sancho, for all affectation is bad (Llaneza, Sancho, que toda afectación es mala). – Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes addresses perennial concerns about human nature and reality, the snare of confusing...