Book Reviews

August 12, 2019|Bernhardt L. Trout, Mastery of Nature, Svetozar Y. Minkov

How Seriously Should We Take the Modern Project?

Essays investigating the mastery of nature.

August 5, 2019|A Fool’s Errand, Albion Tourgée, Homer Plessy, Jim Crow, Justice Henry Billings Brown, Justice John Marshall Harlan, Plessy v. Ferguson, Privileges and Immunities Clause, Reconstruction, Separate, Steve Luxenberg

Segregation Setback: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson

by Sean A. Scott|4 Comments

Everyone knew that successfully overturning Jim Crow laws was a long shot. Here are the men who tried.

July 29, 2019|David Stuttard, Nemesis, treason

What Is a Traitor?: The Glorious (and Ruinous) Life of Alcibiades

by Steven Grosby|Leave a Comment

The man of contradictions whose life story was intertwined with the conflicts in Athens between democracy, oligarchy, and tyranny.

July 22, 2019|James Davison Hunter, Paul Nedelisky, Science and the Good

Why Do We Look to Science As a Guide for Living?

by Ronald W. Dworkin|2 Comments

Science-based morality makes moral “progress” impossible, if not immoral.

July 15, 2019|cyclical time, eternity, Frederick the Great, Frederick William, Germany, History, linear time, National Socialism, Otto von Bismarck, World War I

Germany, Temporal and Eternal

by William Anthony Hay|Leave a Comment

Then as now, where people stood on history and how they understood their place in the flow of time shaped their actions.

July 8, 2019|Children of the Silent Majority, President Richard Nixon, Seth Blumenthal

The Other Reason to Study “Nixon in ’72”: Its Youth Outreach

by David B. Frisk|3 Comments

Many in the Sixties Generation voted for Nixon; a surprising number weren’t demanding a presidential candidate who was “one of them.”

July 1, 2019|A Sacred Space Is Never Empty, Atheism, Soviet Communism, Victoria Smolkin

Icons in the Corner of the Hut: Belief and Unbelief in the USSR

by Elena Leontjeva|2 Comments

Marx promised that “as socialism grows, religion will disappear.” It didn’t in the former USSR.

June 17, 2019|Almost Nothing, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Eric Karpeles, Impressionism, Józef Czapski, Lost Time, Marcel Proust, Totalitarianism

Józef Czapski: A Soldier and Artist Fights for Liberty

by Priscilla M. Jensen|1 Comment

Held as a POW by the Soviets in 1940, Czapski later worked to bring to light their murder of 22,000 of his fellow Polish officers in the Katyn Forest.

June 10, 2019|Christophe Guilluy, Immigration, Twilight of the Elites

The Fracturing of France

by Guillaume de Thieulloy|2 Comments

Conflicts between the “metropolitan winners” and the “peripheral losers” are not the only social or political faultline in France.

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