A Review of Human Dignity and Political Criticism
Colin Bird wants to rescue human dignity from the ashes of the Judeo-Christian tradition. He ends up stripping the concept of all intrinsic value.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of Presidential Control over Administration
Constraint or innovation in administrative control is only the first choice of many a president must make to address the vital issues of the day.
A Review of The Statesman as Thinker
A symposium on Daniel J. Mahoney's The Statesman as Thinker.
A Review of The Statesman as Thinker
How do we ascend from our "culture of repudiation” to the kind of great statesmen that Mahoney profiles in his book?
Past Reviews
A Review of The Statesman as Thinker
The word “statesmanship” doesn’t leap to mind these days when we think of places like Washington D.C., Jerusalem, Brussels, London, Paris, or Berlin.
A Review of The Statesman as Thinker
If we are to see great statesmen again, it will require a generational effort—one that must take place largely in civil society and the home.
A Review of The Statesman as Thinker
Daniel Mahoney's new book shows how a true statesman shepherds his people through the maelstrom of political passion.
A Review of The Democratic Soul
Tocqueville operated in a European world saturated with Spinoza’s philosophy. But he searched for a new way to reconcile faith with liberalism.
A Review of Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri's novel explores our modern spiritual malaise through the eyes of a deeply alienated woman.
A Review of Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai
How far apart are Athens and Jerusalem? And where do Americans in the 21st century find their meaning?
A Review of Asia's New Geopolitics
China's development and strategic priorities have led to the most rapid military buildup the world has ever seen.
A Review of Accidental Pluralism
Can the origins of American religious freedom be traced to the religious and political history of England and its empire?
A Review of Liberalism and Its Discontents
Francis Fukuyama has offered a welcome defense of liberalism, but often treats it as an essence rather than a human practice.
A Review of The War on the West
Douglas Murray is a skilled polemicist, but he needs to dig deeper to diagnose the maladies of our age.
A Review of Washington's Heir
Bushrod Washington may have been the most faithful conservator of the Constitution, and the soundest legal mind on the early Court.
A Review of Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity
Much can be learned from the similarities and differences between Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt.
A Review of Who Can Hold the Sea
This is a cautionary tale about how a once powerful Navy was lost and rebuilt anew.
A Review of Getting China Wrong
For many years, American policymakers ignored clear signs that China was not liberalizing. It's time to face the music.