Antisemitism, an American Tradition By Pamela S. Nadell. W. W. Norton, 2025. Hardcover, 352 Pages, $31.99. Reviewed by Elan Kluger. Every political movement has a philosophy of history and recent American politics has offered quite the olio. Barack Obama’s “Hope” was...
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography. By Tom Arnold-Forster. Princeton University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 368 pages, $35. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. Immersed as he must have been in the papers, columns, and books of Walter Lippmann, intellectual...
Crabgrass Catholicism: How Suburbanization Transformed Faith and Politics in Postwar America By Stephen M. Koeth, CSC. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Paperback, 328 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jacob Akey. This September, the cardinal archbishop of New York unveiled a...
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House, 2025. Hardcover, 1040 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by James Panero. Less than a mile separates the Catholic cemetery of Saint Bernard, the burial site of William F. Buckley Jr., off...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall By William F. Buckley, Jr. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2004. Hardcover, 212 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. As conservatives mark the centenary of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s birth, one of the most-celebrated aspects of his...
France and the Problem of Abstraction
Godefroy Desjonquères on "Prosperity and Torment in France: The Paradox of the Democratic Age" by Chantal Delsol. @UNDPress