America's Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It. C. Bradley Thompson. New York: Encounter Books, 2019. C. Bradley…
"Rationalism," in the sense meant in this essay, might be understood as the idea that abstract thought, deducing answers to questions from first principles, is always superior…
Beyond Radical Secularism: How France and the Christian West Should Respond to the Islamic Challenge. Pierre Manent. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016. I have…
Madison and Jefferson. Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg. New York: Random House, 2010. Burstein and Isenberg have written a fascinating–well, what shall we call it? A…
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States. Gordon S. Wood. New York: Penguin Press, 2011. This book is a collection of…
An Economist looks at Voegelin's "Democracy and Industrial Society" Eric Voegelin delivered his lecture "Democracy and Industrial Society" in 1963. Despite this lecture having been delivered nearly…