Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education by Jonathan Marks. Princeton University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 248 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Matthew Stewart For those ready to give up on the university, Jonathan Marks provides encouraging counsel:...
The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age, Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston, eds. State University of New York Press, 2020. Paperback, 326 pages, $34. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips On January 26, 2021, President Biden announced a...
The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God By Eric Nelson. Harvard University Press, 2019. Hardback, 232 pages, $31. Reviewed by Glenn Moots It would be unfair to say that Eric Nelson’s The Theology of Liberalism is incoherent; it is...
After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division by Samuel Goldman. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Hardcover, 208 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by John G. Grove In After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre described a world in which moral language had lost all...
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage. Princeton University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 424 pages, $35. Reviewed by Julian G. Waller The authoritarian regimes of today are nothing like those of yesterday, and...