A Good Look at Evil
A Good Look at Evil. Abigail L. Rosenthal. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1987. Pulitzer Prize-nominated, Abigail Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil is an exploration…
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, and Arendt
Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, and Arendt. Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Thinking in Public examines what constitutes the public intellectual and…
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair. Bonnie Honig. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. Public Things examines how public practices, space, and objects can form a collective…
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution. Ganesh Sitaraman. New York: Knopf, 2017. “The number one threat to American constitutional government today is the collapse of the…
America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class
America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class. Leslie G. Rubin. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018. Today the middle class in the United States…
Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History
Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History. Matthew Simonton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. Between tyranny and democracy there was oligarchy in the classical world. However, the…
Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism
Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break. Ostap Kushnir. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Since the end of the Cold War, Ukraine has neither transition to…
The Dystopian World
The Man in the High Castle. Philip K. Dick. New York: Mariner Books, 2012. The Man in the High Castle. TV Series created by Frank Spotnitz and…
The Resentful Politics of Populism
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker. Katherine J. Crammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. What is Populism? Jan-Werner Müller…
The Wipe Out of the White Working Class
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010. Charles Murray. New York: Crown Forum, 2013. Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis. Robert D. Putnam. New York:…
The Collapse of Christian America
The End of White Christian America. Robert P. Jones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016. Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. R. R. Reno. Washington D.C.:…
What’s the Matter with the Left?
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Thomas Frank. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. Listen, Liberal; Or, Whatever Happened to the People?…
Sorting Out Who We Are
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Samuel P. Huntington. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. The Big Sort. Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America…
Interview with George H. Nash
Why did you choose the path of the independent scholar as opposed to a university professor? In 1975, when I was on the job market for my…
Patrick Joseph Buchanan, Jr. (1938-)
American conservative journalist, television commentator, and politician, Patrick Buchanan may be best remembered for his speech at the 1992 Republican Convention when he declared “[T]here is a…