The Not So Sudden Death of the American Dream
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. Joel Kotkin. New York: Encounter, 2020. “History never repeats itself. Man always does.” In…
Remembering the American Century: George Weigel’s Not Forgotten
Not Forgotten: Elegies for, and Reminiscences of, a Diverse Cast of Characters, Most of Them Admirable. George Weigel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020. Eerily debuting almost…
The Political Pope in the Age of Meta-Politics
The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission. George Weigel. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020. In his 2015 biography of the late…
The State of the Republic in the Autumn of Liberalism
The Tragedy of the Republic. Pierre Manent. Belmont, NC: Wiseblood Books, 2020. On February 16, 1892, Pope Leo XIII issued his encyclical, “Au Milieu de Sollicitudes.”…
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy. James Hankins. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. Among contemporary readers and even well-seasoned scholars…