Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II By Paul Kennedy. Yale University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 544 Pages, $37.50. Reviewed by Casey Chalk. On the eve of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, any observer would have...
An essay by Frank Filocomo. The conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk is fundamentally incompatible with an ungrounded and listless libertarian ethos. While Burke and Kirk emphasize the importance of social cohesiveness and community, libertarians vociferously...
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville By Olivier Zunz. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 472 pages, $35. Reviewed by Sarah Gustafson. In years since Alexis de Tocqueville’s death in 1859, his popularity has ebbed and flowed...
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding by Robert R. Reilly. Ignatius Press, 2020. Hardcover, 384 pages, $28. Originalism’s Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution by Lee J. Strang. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paperback, 326 pages, $35....
American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War by D. G. Hart. Cornell University Press, 2020. Hardback, 280 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl In 1864, Pope Pius IX issued Syllabus Errorum, outlining heresies opposed to Catholic Church...
