Moral Realism Over and Against Contingent Pluralism
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hopeful Realism is a laudable collaboration among three political...
History on Improper Principles
Conservative at the Core: A New History of American Conservatism By Allan J. Lichtman. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 376 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. For a decade now, the American Left has utterly failed to understand the forces behind...
Reality Check for Politics
Political Breakdown: Why Politics Have Failed By Lawrence M. Mead. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. Hardcover, 183 pages, $110.95. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. If it wasn’t already obvious, today’s politics is burdened by third rails, sacred cows that ought not be...
The Postwar British Conservative Movement
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War By Kit Kowol. Oxford University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $38.99. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. In Benjamin Disraeli’s great novel, Lothair, Mr. Phoebus remarks, “Books are fatal;...
"Ferenc Hörcher and Dan Pitt... seem timed to match this shift in popular discourse. Intellectual Conservatism offers a history of English political ideas to a new and motivated audience. Limiting focus on Britain paradoxically enhances the book’s usefulness in other countries."
I am most grateful for a perceptive and cogent review of Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton by @shawn_whatley via @ubookman.
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