A Review of Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
Unfortunately, neither red nor blue states show much interest in finding a determinatio that can provide guidance in contentious cases.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of Before the Movement
Black Americans came to know and benefit from the legal system even during periods of enslavement and segregation.
A Review of The End of Woman
Carrie Gress thinks feminism has been misguided from the beginning, but ironically, she replicates many of the feminists' worst mistakes.
A Review of You Will Own Nothing
America's fiscal future may look ominous, but you'll still own stuff.
Past Reviews
A Review of Decades of Decadence
Marco Rubio presents himself as an advocate for workers and families in his new book, but economic growth might help them more.
A Review of Liberalism's Last Man
Hayek defies ready classification, but his central insights are very much needed in our time.
A Review of The Insurrectionist
Is conservativism in America tainted by a long-deceased agitator few people have ever heard of?
A Review of The Idea of Fraternity in America
The core value of community animates the best thinkers on both the left and the right.
A Review of Life after Capitalism
George Gilder questions the fundamentals of modern economics, and sketches the contours of a new paradigm.
A Review of American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime
The country is caught between two irreconcilable regimes: one informed by liberal ideals, the other by the ethic of anti-discrimination.
A Review of Traffic
It all started with two MIT students who convinced themselves they could make the world better by airing everyone's dirty laundry.
A Review of Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist
A focus on the philosophical background of Flannery O’Connor allows us to access the deepest meaning of her narrative art.
A Review of Going Infinite
Effective Altruism and Sam Bankman-Fried's limited experience of the world combined to to create a financial implosion.
A Review of Disunion Among Ourselves
Barely-disguised hostilities sometimes belied the rebels’ declared identity as the United States of America.
A Review of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
Left-wing activism is no longer helping anyone but elites themselves.
A Review of African Founders
African Founders corrects some of the ideological uses of black American history.
A Review of Hell to Pay
New critiques of mainstream economics are often half-baked and hyperbolic, but they may still be potent politically.
Book Review
Woke ideology is an attack on freedom, equal rights, truth-based institutions, and social cohesion.