We Few, We Happy Few
Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt—Paul Elmer More Correspondence Edited by Eric Adler. University of Missouri Press, 2023. Hardcover, 488 pages, $75. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison. In The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk observes, “it is an ominous sign for any...
Of Man and Lost Time
The Twilight World: A Novel By Werner Herzog. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Penguin Press, 2022. Hardcover, 144 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese Imperial Army soldier who did not accept that Japan surrendered on September 2,...
St. Thomas Aquinas With a Southern Drawl
Understanding The Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art By Fr. Damian Ference. Word on Fire, 2023. Paperback, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. By her own admission, Flannery O’Connor was...
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...
Daniel Klein, a professor at @MasonEconomics, examines key passages of the Declaration of Independence and suggests that “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” expresses the spirit of the American Founding period. Watch here:
Very good commentary from Dan Klein as we ramp up to the 250th.