The Founders and the Constitution on Religious Liberty

The Founders and the Constitution on Religious Liberty

Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses By Vincent Phillip Muñoz. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Paperback, 344 pages, $30. Reviewed by Thomas G. West. In a field crowded...
The Destruction of American Social Cohesion

The Destruction of American Social Cohesion

The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free  By Mike Gonzalez.  Encounter Books, 2020. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free is...
In Defense of Maintenance 

In Defense of Maintenance 

The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work that Matters Most By Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell.  Currency, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28.  Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Sam Smith, the former president of Washington State University...
Marginal No More: Willmoore Kendall as Essential Conservative

Marginal No More: Willmoore Kendall as Essential Conservative

Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall By Christopher Owen. Lexington Books, 2021. Hardcover, 256 pages, $105. Reviewed by Jason Ross. As the conservative movement is crumbling, many outside of that movement’s mainstream are tracing their way back to...
More Than a Commercial Republic

More Than a Commercial Republic

The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World  By Samuel Gregg. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 336 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by John G. Grove. Editor’s Note: See the Bookman’s episode of the Book Gallery with Samuel Gregg here.  Samuel...