A Review of We Should Have Seen It Coming
The post-Goldwater conservative movement changed America’s ideological landscape. Today, that world seems very far away.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of Providence Lost
The Protectorate paved the way for what later became known as constitutional monarchy.
A Review of Paleolithic Politics
Political order stems human anxiety caused by a primary intuition that existence is out of nothing.
A Review of The Essential Scalia
One thing is sure: Antonin Scalia is one of the greatest jurists of all time, for all the right reasons.
Past Reviews
A Review of The Essential Scalia
Scalia offered the first map of a new world, or perhaps more accurately, rediscovered an old map of the world that had been forgotten.
A Review of Law & Leviathan
So long as a studied indifference to the true state of administrative law persists, Leviathan will continue to overcome the rule of law.
A Review of Reconsidering Judicial Finality
If our constitutional democracy is tolerably functional, occasions for resisting Court rulings will arise relatively infrequently.
A Review of Soft Power With Chinese Characteristics
Is it possible that the Communists are right that economic power will, sooner or later, clothe in amiability the malefactor of great wealth?
Book Review
Yoo and Posner both engage the same fundamental question: what are the best ways to promote good government and popular government simultaneously?
A Review of On Bullshit
Reality having ceased to provide a standard by which to evaluate statements, it is replaced by the speaker, who seeks merely to be true to himself.
A Review of The Socialist Temptation
Presenting socialism’s rise as the greatest issue in our political life today attributes too much societal sway to this particular "-ism."
A Review of Who's the Bigot?
McClain’s blindness to the ultimate significance of ultimate truths leads her to miss something no genuine social scientist should miss.
A Review of The Unelected
The Unelected addresses a timely subject, and one that is vital to the future of the United States as a constitutional republic.
A Review of What's Wrong with Economics?
Good economic arguments do not make the science subordinate to this or that political goal, but help us better understand the riddles of economic life.
A Review of Dark Skies
If extraterrestrial sirens beckon, Daniel Deudney makes the case that we ought to tie ourselves to the mast.
A Review of Power and Purity
In our age of self-righteous secularism, original sin has gone out of fashion, but social sin and political salvation are de rigueur.
A Review of War for Eternity
Although Steve Bannon certainly played a role in the resurgence of right-wing populism in the U.S., his influence has been overstated.
A Review of The Decline and Rise of Democracy
Stasavage puts his thumb on the scales in favor of democracy but misses the possible virtues of autocracy in his comparative theory.