Genesis Through a Glass Darkly

Genesis Through a Glass Darkly

Reading Genesis By Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.00. Reviewed by Richard Gunderman. In thin places, the distance between heaven and earth is narrowed, making it possible for human beings to feel the presence of the...
The Babbitt School of Conservatism

The Babbitt School of Conservatism

The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken By Claes G. Ryn. Republic Book Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 468 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Daniel McCarthy. In the 2020s, “conservatism” sounds passé, and its failure is taken for granted. A new right finds...
The Babbitt School of Conservatism

The Conservative Need for Conservative Philosophy

The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken By Claes G. Ryn. Republic Book Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 468 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Michael Federici. American conservatism has been plagued by an identity crisis and political failure since its birth...
The Babbitt School of Conservatism

A Half Century of Conservative Criticism

The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken By Claes G. Ryn. Republic Book Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 468 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by John Grove.  Since at least 2016, conservatism has been undergoing a bit of an intellectual identity crisis. Perhaps...
Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy

Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy

The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy By Vereen M. Bell. Louisiana State University Press, 1988/2023. Paperback, 160 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Michael Yost. “I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion...