A Review of Wolf Hall
No longer an amoral, conniving minister who orchestrated More’s death after he failed to break him, Mantel's new Cromwell is a visionary statesman.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of The Metamorphoses of the City of God
The Metamorphoses of the City of God displays Gilson turning his attention to European issues through Augustine's City of God.
A Review of The People, No
How can Frank be so optimistic about “the people” despite his familiarity with their right-wing bigotry?
A Review of Children of Ash and Elm
What might a civilization look like where the founding myth has the world created from the dismembered body of a murder victim?
Past Reviews
A Review of Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Our understanding of how religious beliefs shape economic life and ideas remains fragile, tentative, and heavily driven by speculation and ideology.
A Review of The Power of Creative Destruction
Addressing stagnation will require government intervention, but of a highly selective kind aimed at spurring innovation.
A Review of The Rule of Law, Economic Development, and Corporate Governance
As long as humans are human, some people will behave badly in business. But no cure should be worse than the sickness.
A Review of Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel
Andrea Grosso Ciponte’s Freiheit! reveals the limits of Hitler comparisons.
A Review of Beyond Order
Jordan Peterson has written a Nicomachean Ethics for our day, when pernicious ideologies drown out the voice of nature.
A Review of Crisis of the Two Constitutions
Once you create a picture of a world in which unalloyed good hangs by a thread in the face of an alien evil, you are already boarding Flight 93.
A Review of The Empire of Depression
Everyone has a reason to be depressed but not everyone is depressed, even if his reason to be depressed is very strong.
A Review of Napoleon and de Gaulle
From what might have been a mere jeu d’esprit, Gueniffey has conjured a beautiful and profound reflection on the meanings of heroism.
A Review of The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
The woke capital issue is about whether to politicize all areas of life or to maintain a line between public and private.
A Review of The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
Trueman deftly traces the sources of the inward, emotive, and poetic self in the modern Western social imaginary.
A Review of A Glorious Liberty
Root's focus on Douglass' constitutional views will help popularize the interpretation of the Constitution as an anti-slavery document.
A Review of It is Right and Just: Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion
Barruel’s conspiracy of the Enlightenment has become a regrettable genre of conservative Catholic commentary.
A Review of I Want to Believe
While the other Trotskyites tried to ban talk of UFOs from their conferences, Posadas found in aliens the true great leap forward.
A Review of The Hardhat Riot
The biggest mistake of all would be to think conflict will subside in the absence of Trump.