Politics and Poetics: Educating Wise Statesmen
The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom Edited by Khalil M. Habib and L. Joseph Hebert Jr. Lexington Books, 2018. Hardcover, 224 pages, $95. Reviewed by Christopher Fisher The statesman is a rare beast. Who among them come...
Reagan’s Consistent Cheerful Convictions
The Literary Reagan: Authentic Quotations from His Life By Nicholas Dujmovic. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. Hardcover, 346 pages, $88. Reviewed by William F. Meehan III Nicholas Dujmovic’s rationale for compiling and editing The Literary Reagan is clear: the...
Thucydides’s Challenge
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides, edited by Johanna Hanink. Princeton University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 336 pages, $17. Reviewed by Nick Burns If pulled from his grave near the base of the Pnyx Hill, unceremoniously revivified,...
Sufism as Civil Religion?
Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought by Hüseyin Yilmaz. Princeton University Press, 2018. Hardcover, 384 pages, $40. Reviewed by Fitzroy Morrissey In his very useful pocket-guide The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction (2016), the...
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