The Failure of American Conservatism and the Road Not Taken By Claes G. Ryn. Republic Book Publishers, 2023. Hardcover, 468 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by John Grove. Since at least 2016, conservatism has been undergoing a bit of an intellectual identity crisis. Perhaps...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.