Book Reviews – Page 3

August 26, 2019|John P. McCormick, Machiavelli

A Makeover for Machiavelli

by Michelle T. Clarke|7 Comments

His true convictions have been suppressed by academics propagandizing on behalf of oligarchy, says John P. McCormick.

August 19, 2019|Aristotle, Delba Winthrop, Democracy and Political Science

Aristotle’s Investigation of the True Meaning of Citizenship

by John Hungerford|4 Comments

Delba Winthrop asks whether the political disputes depicted by Aristotle were really about first causes.

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

How Seriously Should We Take the Modern Project?

by Charles T. Rubin|3 Comments

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|4 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.

Conservative Nationalism and American Statecraft

A discussion with Colin Dueck

Colin Dueck discusses his new book, Age of Iron, with Richard Reinsch

Liberalism and the Death Penalty

A discussion with Craig S. Lerner

Craig Lerner discusses the political, philosophical, and moral implications of the death penalty.

Planning the Great Society

A discussion with Amity Shlaes

Is it true what they say about planning and centralized government power?

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Greta Gerwig and the Art of Return

Gerwig's characters are real, human girls who must wrestle with the tension between their ambitions and their givenness, their futures and their pasts.
by Rachel K. Alexander
Mystic Timber

As an epic vision of reality, Karl Marlantes’s Deep River takes up the enduring cultural theme of primitivism.
by Lee Oser
The Times Reveals Its Priorities

The Times is doubling down on the policies and cultural attitudes that led to the improbable victory of Donald Trump.
by John O. McGinnis
Remembering Roger Scruton

Law & Liberty contributors offer their reflections on the man and his achievements.
by Law & Liberty Editors
The Last Gentleman of the English-Speaking World

Where many conservatives speak sentimentally of Western Civilization, Roger Scruton sought to know and justify it by the highest standards of philosophers.
by Titus Techera

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