When Left and Right Agree
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream By Nicholas Lemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Hardcover, 306 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy To capture the gravity of the social problems plaguing the United States, one can...
Federalism Against the Slave Power
American Abolitionism: Its Direct Political Impact from Colonial Times into Reconstruction by Stanley Harrold. University of Virginia Press, 2019. Hardcover. 296 pages. $39.50. Reviewed by Carl Lawrence Paulus The New York Times Magazine recently commemorated the four...
The Empire Has No Clothes
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2019. Hardcover, 528 pages, $30. Reviewed by Joseph S. Laughon. A common Lovecraftian theme is the peril in searching deep within one’s own history for...
How Conservatives Can Come Home
This interview with Ted V. McAllister and Bruce P. Frohnen, authors of Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul, covers topics including the necessary connection between history and idealism and the enduring relationship of opportunity and equality in the...
A great review of my collection of poetry @ubookman which highlights that "poetry has always been about love—about the heavens and the burning passion of the human heart." Read the review, then read and enjoy the music of poetry and let your heart soar!
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/following-dantes-footsteps/