The legacy of Angela Merkel's 16-year reign as Chancellor of Germany is more complicated than Kati Marton's hagiography suggests.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
This is a novel about things boys used to do, like surviving in the wilderness, fighting for a good cause, meeting girls, and becoming men.
As the principal poet of Western Christendom, Shakespeare soars above his parochial modern critics.
Novak's New Democracy is a call for the administrative state to remake America in its own image.
Past Reviews
Two recent books help us see how being human requires us to honor the communities and inheritances into which we're born.
In a culture that struggles to understand duty and honor, soldiers are often unseen and misunderstood.
Bruce Gilley argues that German colonialism was a force for good.
If one wants to avoid the pitfalls of integralist or progressivie statism, De Regno’s vision of politics has much to teach us.
If we strip away the essential aspects of human nature, we are inevitably doomed to self-destruction.
Liberal academics are repenting of their commitment to academic freedom.
Dobbs provides an opportunity for a reinvigorated social conservatism.
Can Americans still live together under a coherent political union in spite of their differences?
Fossil fuels are still essential for preserving human civilization.
Recent histories of America's two political parties show what it takes to win a governing majority.
Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible is hauntingly beautiful at points, but it is ultimately a Bible without God.
Michael Kazin's new book advises the Democratic Party to return to its traditional mission of defending working-class interests.
Jackson's supporters wanted him to be “a curative to the corrupt politics cankering Washington." In other words, he was sent there to drain the swamp.
America on Fire is an ideological account of American race riots that fails to hold up against the facts.