A Sophist American Framing
America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It By C. Bradley Thompson. Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 461 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy On the fusionist political right, there are several...
The President’s Hidden Hand
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins by Annie Jacobsen. Back Bay Books, 2019. Paperback, 560 pages, $19. Reviewed by Michael J. Ard Is lethal covert action compatible with American democracy?...
An Ambitious Forgotten President
President Without a Party: The Life of John Tyler by Christopher J. Leahy. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 512 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Brian Cervantez One cool February night in 1845, two weeks prior to the inauguration of recently elected...
The Unfashionable Statesmanship of John Courtney Murray
SymposiumMurray’s We Hold These Truths: 1960 and Today Hunter Baker John Courtney Murray is often thought of as the American Catholic who did the most to bridge the gap between the American constitutional tradition and the Church of Rome on the relationship between...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.