A Review of The Radio Right
Right-wing radio broadcasters were a crucial, but now mostly forgotten, element of the Republican Party’s rise in the South.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of Irrationality
Irrationality offers all manner of human peculiarities and follies but no clarity on the exact attributes making something irrational.
A Review of Union
What happens when an author writes brilliantly but seems utterly unaware of his prejudices?
A Review of Love in the Ruins
In 2020, a famous novelist offering a tale about love in the midst of disaster is a prophet of hope
Past Reviews
A Review of Lost in Thought
The liberal arts are valuable only insofar as they are transformative, redemptive, and central to human flourishing.
A Review of Lost in Thought
Hitz reminds us of a way out of the dark woods we find ourselves in, a journey that draws us upwards and out of our isolated selves.
A Review of Lost in Thought
The life of the mind needs firm anchors lest it become unmoored from reason and prudence.
A Review of How America's Political Parties Change
How America's Political Parties Change represents the culmination of Michael Barone’s 60 years of experience examining American elections.
A Review of Charisma and Disenchantment
Vocation’s lost meaning is the real mystery.
A Review of Capital and Ideology
For Piketty, the Hayekian turn in the 1980s was a long planned ideological triumph, but his narrative omits certain crucial details.
A Review of Thomas Jefferson's Lives
Jefferson remains indispensable to the American story, the wordsmith of our most noble ideals and symbol of our most awful paradoxes.
A Review of The Dubious Morality of Administrative Law
The difficulty is that APA originalism runs up against the constitutionalist position at every turn.
A Review of America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding
Reilly not only vindicates the founders, he provides arguments that are so strong that a competent grand jury would not even allow the case to go to trial.
A Review of In Search of the Soul
Even with (literally) a lifetime of experience under our belts, human beings are not fully transparent—even to ourselves.
A Review of American Conservatism
Bacevich's conservative ecosystem, rich and varied as it is, contains many an invasive liberal species.
A Review of The Campaign to Impeach Justice William O. Douglas
Attempting to portray the quintessential judicial activist as a victim of political skullduggery is like putting lipstick on a pig.
A Review of Illuminating History
Using the chapters in this new book as lamps and signposts, Bailyn has created an elegant roadmap of his intellectual journey.
A Review of Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution
Jeff Broadwater offers an account of Jefferson and Madison that highlights their friendship and influence over the Constitution.