Books

August 10, 2020

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Jonathan Leaf

An Epitome of Liberty

Historian Richard Brookhiser has crafted the perfect antidote to the 1619 Project, demonstrating how liberty is the true key to understanding America’s history and identity.
August 3, 2020

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Lucien Ellington

No Surrender: Why Conservatives Can’t Give Up on Education Reform

A new book offers hope to the right for effective realistic public-education reform that emphasizes character as well as curriculum. All that’s needed is the will.
July 13, 2020

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Jeffrey Meyers

Theroux in Mexico

Paul Theroux has made his contribution to the collection of travel books by celebrated authors. His Mexico journey proved both troubling and inspiring.
July 6, 2020

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Gregory M. Collins

The Princes of Prudence

The prudence of Lincoln and Burke is sorely needed when both conservatives and liberals employ the strident language of war in the service of all-or-nothing political objectives.
June 29, 2020

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Alexandra Hudson

The Tyrants Among Us

Was the Civil War between North and South one of civilizations, republicanism versus medieval barbarism? Alexandra Hudson reviews a recent book that says yes, and that warns the war continues in every human heart.
June 15, 2020

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Two Constitutions in Conflict

Is the U.S. Constitution the controlling law of the land, or are civil rights statutes? And which has the last word when they conflict? Christopher Caldwell’s new book lays out the often-confusing rules of engagement.
June 1, 2020

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Patrick Deneen

The Great Stagnation—or Decline and Fall?

Decline or stagnation? What’s the word for what our country, our culture, our civilization is undergoing? Ross Douthat’s new book parses the vocabulary of decadence.
May 26, 2020

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Andy Smarick

Deplatforming the Institutions

It’s no surprise that many Americans distrust institutions that are essential in a free society. Yuval Levin offers a way back from atomization, alienation, and anarchy.
May 18, 2020

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Michael P. Federici

The Imperial Imagination

Restraint in American foreign policy does not mean wholesale appeasement or isolationism. Will New World Order types finally get it?
April 13, 2020

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Emina Melonic

Languages of Memory

Trauma often casts memory into a “universe of oblivion,” Bosnian author Aleksandar Hemon writes. How does one re-create what has been annihilated?

Books

An Epitome of Liberty

No Surrender: Why Conservatives Can’t Give Up on Education Reform

Theroux in Mexico

The Princes of Prudence

The Tyrants Among Us

Two Constitutions in Conflict

The Great Stagnation—or Decline and Fall?

Deplatforming the Institutions

The Imperial Imagination

Languages of Memory

Religion and Empire, Inseparable

Notes Toward the Definition of Kitsch

Flannery at 100—and Forever

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