The Left Wing Patriot

The Left Wing Patriot

The Controversialist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center By Martin Peretz.  Wicked Son, 2023. Hardcover, 352 pages, $28.00. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If it can be said that a book occasionally arrives at just the right moment, Martin Peretz’s...
Remaking Cold War Diplomacy

Remaking Cold War Diplomacy

A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s  By Anthony M. Eames. University of Massachusetts Press, 2023.  Paperback, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Jason C. Phillips. Anthony M. Eames currently serves as the director...
When Rulers Look in the Mirror

When Rulers Look in the Mirror

The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas By William McCormick, S.J.  The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.  Paperback, 288 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Thomas F.X. Varacalli. In the field of political philosophy, Saint Thomas...
Humanely Conservative

Humanely Conservative

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The controversies in our country’s...
The Paradoxical Ideology

The Paradoxical Ideology

The Ideology of Democratism By Emily B. Finley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $54.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. A new poll by the University of Virginia Center of Politics found that American voters have a mutual mistrust of the other side and...