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...
Buckley at 100: The Redhunter, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Buckley at 100: The Redhunter, William F. Buckley, Jr.

McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. The Committee and Its Critics: A Calm View of the House Committee on Un-American Activities By William F. Buckley, Jr....
Buckley at 100: The Redhunter, William F. Buckley, Jr.

Buckley at 100: Countering the Communist Threat

McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning By William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Henry Regnery Co., 1954. Hardcover, 425 pages. Reviewed by Nicholas Mosvick. William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell Jr., his one-time Yale debate partner, National...
A Measured Look at an Unsettling Ideology

A Measured Look at an Unsettling Ideology

On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice By Adam Kirsch. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. Hardcover, 160 pages, $24.99 Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The term “settler colonialism” has exploded in popularity. According to the Google Books NGram Viewer,...
The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Consciousness

The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies By Aziz A. Huq. Oxford University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 192 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Glen Sproviero. Aziz Huq’s The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies is an elegantly written, yet deeply flawed examination of American...