Watergate: A New History By Garrett M. Graff. Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2022. Hardcover, 832 pages, $35. The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President By Geoff Shepard. Bombardier Books, 2021. Hardcover, 384 pages, $30. Reviewed...
By Ben Peterson At least since Sophocles’ dramatic telling of the bitter conflict between Antigone and Creon over the burial of Antigone’s traitorous brother, the tension between higher law and the benefits of a public order that promotes law abidingness has been...
M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom By Steven F. Hayward. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 400 pages, $33.99. Reviewed by James A. Davenport. Recently, I found myself working through a document that mentioned the name M. Stanton Evans. A colleague...
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall. Harvard University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 352 pages, $49.95. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Sarah Shortall’s Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology...
Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can’t Say or Even Think by Harley Price. FGF Books, 2022. Hardcover, 326 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. After reading about Gnosticism, which is Greek for Know-it-all-ism, for years, all I could...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Godefroy Desjonquères on "Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age" by Chantal Delsol. @UNDPress
