Mark Twain Revisited

Mark Twain Revisited

Mark Twain  By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025.  Hardcover, 1,200 pages, $45. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Let us stipulate at the outset that Ron Chernow has indeed covered the Twain waterfront in this massive volume. How could he not? Twain appears “Afloat” in Part...
Educational Counterrevolution 

Educational Counterrevolution 

Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation By Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin. Broadside, 2022. Hardcover, 288 pages, $32. Reviewed by John Kainer. Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps most famous for the words he has a madman speak in his book, The...
Between Greatness and Hubris 

Between Greatness and Hubris 

Gems of American History: The Lecturer’s Art By Walter A. McDougall. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 336 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Nicholas Callaghan. As we rapidly approach the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, a question remains at the fore...
Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War By Miles Smith. The Davenant Press, 2024. Paperback, 350 pages, $42.95. Reviewed by Glenn Moots. Beginning in the 1970s, American Christians sensing a cultural shift engaged in a war of...
The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder

The Truth About Fusionism’s Founder

The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer  By Daniel J. Flynn.  Encounter Books, 2025.  Hardcover, 440 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Bill Meehan. One rainy afternoon in June, I finally got around to reading the first section of Confessions of...