A Review of Harmonizing Sentiments
Ideas of self-government helped to hold the fractious founding generation together. Sadly, we don't speak that language anymore.
Book Reviews
Fresh commentary on some of the most important books in law, politics, and culture.
A Review of Who Is Big Brother?
D. J. Taylor judiciously steers a course between hagiography and debunking.
A Review of The Duty to Secure
Clausewitz's understanding of war is now out of fashion. Its loss comes with costs, however.
A Review of Why Do the Heathen Rage?
Some unfinished works are better left unfinished.
Past Reviews
A Review of The Neptune Factor
Alfred Thayer Mahan viewed sea power as a tool of political economy, rather than merely of military power.
A Review of Biblical Judgments
What does the Bible tell us about the problems and trials of modern law?
A Review of Markets with Chinese Characteristics
Missing in the conversations about China’s future is the place of economic liberalism in modern Chinese thought before 1978.
A Review of The Anxious Generation
Safetyism and screens have created a toxic cocktail for America’s youth.
A Review of Machiavelli on War
War makes nations rise and fall. Wise leaders prepare for it.
A Review of I Will Show You How It Was
Living in a free society shapes people in ways that tyrants like Vladimir Putin can hardly understand.
A Review of Hussar Cut
Hussar Cut presents the case for the Hungarian strategy and the philosophy behind it.
A Review of Here In Avalon
Tara Burton’s latest novel takes readers to a darkly magical place where the boundaries between worlds blur.
A Review of The Habsburg Way
Can the West today learn valuable lessons from Habsburg family lore? Probably not.
A Review of Bad Therapy
It's time to stop inflicting therapy on kids who don't need it.
A Review of The War on Prices
When economists lose interest in price theory, policymakers return to familiar mistakes.
A Review of Broken Code
A hugely woke company came face to face with the reality that misinformation spread on Facebook impacted voter’s decisions.
A Review of Limitarianism
Limitarianism defends the deeply illiberal—but increasingly common—instinct to eliminate the wealthy.
A Review of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
Like the evangelicals he criticizes, Tim Alberta struggles to see politics operating between the sacred and the sordid.