A Review of The Age of Entitlement
Is it really correct to say that the Reagan era is the crucial period that consolidated the movements of the 1960s?
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of 10% Less Democracy
The trouble with experts is that intellectuals have a tendency to convince themselves that mastery of one subject entails mastery of all.
A Review of The Affirmative Action Puzzle
Will the zealous pursuit of equal group outcomes over individual rewards erode our prosperity, prowess, effectiveness, and international competitiveness?
A Review of The Riches of This Land
On almost every page of Tankersley's book, the villain—with its own organic intelligence compelling its operation—is "the economy."
Past Reviews
A Review of The Justice of Contradictions
The Court's inconsistencies may be a function of the peculiarities of our political system, not the peculiarities of particular justices.
A Review of We Hold These Truths
Murray means to deepen American political truths with a comprehensive sense of the ideas, laws, and institutions that made America possible.
A Review of Lincoln and the American Founding
Lincoln prudently acted on the moral principle that slavery and its expansion was wrong and violated American principles of self-government.
A Review of Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox
Richard Ellis shows that there was much more to the 1840 presidential contest than hard cider and log cabins.
A Review of The Price of Peace
As progressives understand better than most people, if you win the vision game, you likely win everything else.
A Review of Havel: Unfinished Revolution
The ideological discourse of the communist regime always demanded a certain “contextualization” that blinded one from the particular and the concrete.
A Review of How Innovation Works
Property rights and the neutral rule of law have done far more to sustain innovation and raise living standards than any government social program.
A Review of Radical Wordsworth
Wordsworth's was a prophetic voice, but one that, through the medium of poetry, celebrated meekness, kindliness, graciousness, and compassion.
A Review of Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy
Gregory Collins has written the definitive account of Burke’s economic thought.
A Review of Europe and the Decline of Social Democracy
Williamson sets out how the British social democratic tradition focused on achieving significant economic equality and (close to) full employment.
A Review of Dante's Bones
Dante’s Bones tells a fascinating story about the afterlife of a brilliant artist. But it also reveals how political figures distorted his legacy.
A Review of Compromise and the American Founding
The development of American politics can be understood as a centuries-long grappling with two competing but equally essential conceptions of "the people."
A Review of We Built Reality
According to We Built Reality, economists with their dark magic of supply and demand curves have bewitched academia—and the world.
A Review of After Reagan
The 1988 campaign was a capstone for long-running changes to the postwar GOP, and its campaign themes would reverberate into the future.