A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Penguin, 2021. Hardcover, 480 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare. David Cutler and Ed Glaeser’s new book, Survival of the City (Penguin, 2021), is an oddity. It...
The Graces of Death and Nature
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives By Robert D. Richardson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 128 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Death is a morbid topic, one that most people...
Right Populism
The Conservative Affirmation By Willmoore Kendall. Regnery, 2022. Paperback, 432 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Benjamin Clark. First published in 1963, Willmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation remains an under-read classic of conservative theory and political...
Kennan: The Fallible Prophet We Need
George Kennan for Our Time By Lee Congdon. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa. The United States in the early 21st century, Lee Congdon writes, suffers from a wayward internationalist foreign policy...
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