Book Reviews

March 18, 2019|Benjamin Kleinerman, Eric Helland, Kenneth P. Miller, Parchment Barriers, Zachary Courser

What Are the Real Fault Lines Dividing Americans?

Our most bitter political disagreements are often more symbolic than substantive.

March 11, 2019|Alain Besançon, Auguste Comte, Daniel Mahoney, Eric Voegelin, Immanuel Kant, Isaiah Berlin, Pope Benedict XVI, Positivism, The Idol of Our Age

Championing Mankind at the Expense of Real Human Beings

by Juliana Geran Pilon|1 Comment

Daniel Mahoney on why substituting “the love of Humanity for the love of God” has had such inhumane consequences.

March 4, 2019|Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Religious Freedom LGBT Rights and the Prospects for the Common Good, Robin Fretwell Wilson, Same Sex Marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr.

The Road to Compromise

by Mark David Hall|12 Comments

This book makes an excellent case that we can better protect LGBT rights without forcing citizens to choose between their job and their religious faith.

February 25, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Antifederalists, Barry Goldwater, Federalist Papers, Federalists, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Ronald Reagan

The Constitutional “Moments” You Can Believe In

by Kevin Gutzman|4 Comments

Did the apparent losers—Anti-Federalists, Andrew Johnson, and Barry Goldwater—impede the full development of our constitutional tradition?

February 18, 2019|Brainstorm, epilepsy, Suzanne O'Sullivan

A Compelling and Compassionate Book about Epilepsy

by Theodore Dalrymple|1 Comment

Our knowledge of the human brain is limited, but neuroscientist Suzanne O’Sullivan’s observation of her patients yields astute insights.

February 11, 2019|Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Clementine Churchill, Edmund Burke, Winston Churchill

Andrew Roberts Takes the Measure of the “Populist” Aristocrat, Churchill

by Joao Carlos Espada|1 Comment

Yes, there is something new to be learned about Winston Churchill, and it's in the new 1,105-page biography by Andrew Roberts.

February 4, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, honor

Honor, Sacred and Profane

by Lynn Uzzell|Leave a Comment

Craig Bruce Smith shows that honor was a vitally important concept for the development of the American nation.

January 28, 2019|John Marshall, Richard Brookhiser

Jurisprudence as an Expression of Character

by Marc DeGirolami|Leave a Comment

The eminently useful personal qualities of John Marshall.

January 28, 2019|James Madison, Jefferson and the Virginians, Patrick Henry, Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson

Peter Onuf’s Jefferson

by Kevin Gutzman|Leave a Comment

A great historian shows us how much there is still to learn about the nation’s third President.

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