A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Penguin, 2021. Hardcover, 480 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare. David Cutler and Ed Glaeser’s new book, Survival of the City (Penguin, 2021), is an oddity. It...
Morality in Adam Smith
Smithian Morals By Daniel B. Klein. CL Press, 2023. Paperback, 248 pages, $12. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Like blades of grass shooting up in an already verdant countryside estate, the introduction of new scholarship on Adam Smith faces the daunting task of...
History Is Never Certain
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville By Olivier Zunz. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 472 pages, $35. Reviewed by Sarah Gustafson. In years since Alexis de Tocqueville’s death in 1859, his popularity has ebbed and flowed...
The Authority of Reason
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:...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!