American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin. Basic Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Something has gone wrong with America. Even among the politically disengaged, one can detect a...
Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism?: Why Christian Nationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church By Mark David Hall. Fidelis Books, 2024. Paperback, 222 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Thomas K. Sarrouf, Jr. Mark David Hall’s newest book, Who’s...
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization By Brad Wilcox. Broadside Books, 2024. Hardcover, 320, $32. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. The University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox might be the world’s leading academic...
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis By James Davison Hunter. Yale, 2024. Hardcover, 504 pages, $40. Reviewed by Brad Littlejohn. Being of a chronically pessimistic disposition, I used to enjoy picking out Despair.com posters...
Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein. Free Press, 2024. Hardcover, 304 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Never? Maybe saying so really is OK, especially when you know that you had little to...
Joseph Story and the Politics of the Early Republic
John Grove on "Contending for American Nationhood: Joseph Story and the Debate Over a Federal Common Law" by Benjamin Clark. @BloomsburyPub @Liberty_Fund
Listening to the Law, and Now Speaking It
James V. F. Dickey on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution" by Amy Coney Barrett. @slf_liberty @SCOTUSblog