Book Reviews

December 2, 2019|alt right, Clint Watts, ISIS, Messing with the Enemy, Russia

Surviving Russophobia

by George Hawley|2 Comments

Clint Watts argues that contemporary fears about Russia are well justified.

November 25, 2019|Religious Liberty, Sacred Liberty, Steven Waldman

A Nuanced Report Card on Religious Liberty

by Mark David Hall|4 Comments

Religious liberty is well protected today; legislatures often craft accommodations to protect religious minorities. But the struggle is not over.

November 18, 2019|Armies of Deliverance, Elizabeth Varon, Reconstruction, Representative Hamilton Ward

Northerners’ Failed Mission in the Civil War: Saving the South

by Allen Guelzo|12 Comments

Elizabeth Varon’s impressive Civil War history contributes to an emerging new theory about why Reconstruction failed.

November 11, 2019|Benjamin Franklin, Great Seal of the United States, Limited Government, Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land, Thomas Jefferson

The Israelites and the Americans

by David Conway|4 Comments

A sourcebook on the Hebrew Bible’s influence on the formation of a new government in the New World.

November 4, 2019|Aaron Rhodes, Declaration of Independence, MIke Pompeo, The Debasement of Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Righting Our Understanding of Human Rights: A Tough Job

by Marc F. Plattner|8 Comments

Aaron Rhodes is right about the need to rethink human rights, but his book shows that the intellectual and political obstacles to doing so are enormous.

October 28, 2019|Converts to the Real, Edmund Husserl, Edward Baring, phenomenology, Rene Descartes, Thomism

Phenomenology’s Influence in the West

by Graham McAleer|1 Comment

Phenomenology has been just as important to Catholic theology as to philosophy.

October 21, 2019|Alastair MacIntyre, Classical Liberalism, Conservatism, Michael Oakeshott, Michael Polyani, Reason, Tradition

A Better Guide than Reason—Or Not?

by Virginia Arbery|5 Comments

In recovering tradition, how can the presuppositions of a believing culture apply to one bereft of belief?

October 7, 2019|A Short History of European Law, Civil Law, Common Law, Tamar Herzog

European Law and the “Myth of English Exceptionalism”

by Michael I. Krauss|10 Comments

A primer on the intertwined history of civil codes and the common law.

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