The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex By Jonathan Butcher. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 248 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In The Polarization Myth, Jonathan Butcher points to evidence that America is...
Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment By Robert P. George. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 414 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by R. McKay Stangler. The first question, and perhaps the most pressing one when reviewing a book by Robert P....
FDR: A New Political Life By David T. Beito. Open Universe, 2025. Paperback, 284 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Did the presidency of Herbert Hoover and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt actually prolong what today might be remembered as the “panic of...
The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order By Philip Pilkington. Polity, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Philip Pilkington has written a very provocative and thought-provoking book, one that...
By John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. The recent death of Norman Podhoretz prompted me to return to his “political memoir,” Breaking Ranks. Published in 1979, it deserves to be read or re-read today—and not simply as a historical account of his evolution from left to right...
Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic
John Grove on "Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law" by Benjamin Clark. @BloomsburyPub @Liberty_Fund
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It
James V. F. Dickey on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution" by Amy Coney Barrett. @slf_liberty @SCOTUSblog
