Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. New York: Basic Books, 2022. When does enthusiasm for the foreign become too intoxicating that one ends…
Olivier Zunz. The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis De Tocqueville. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. Alexis de Tocqueville’s name is synonymous with democracy…
David A. Eisenberg. Nietzsche and Tocqueville on The Democratization of Humanity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. In today’s political rhetoric, “democracy” is the abracadabra phrase bandied…
Carl R. Trueman. Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked The Sexual Revolution. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022. “Things once regarded as obvious…
Robin J. Varma. Ruling Bodies: A Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. Where does Plato fall…
Guy MacLean Rogers. For the Freedom of Zion: The Great Revolt of Jews Against Romans, 66–74 CE. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. The Jewish War…
The Wartime Sermons of Jonathan Edwards. Ed. Christian Cuthbert. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022. Jonathan Edwards has been called “the American Augustine.” One of the greatest…
Todd Still and Jason Myers, eds. Rhetoric, History, and Theology: Interpreting the New Testament. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. “Any scholar approaching the New Testament is confronted…
Kody W. Cooper. Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 2018; 2022. Thomas Hobbes occupies a special place in the…
Jamie Davies. The Apocalyptic Paul: Retrospect and Prospect. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022. “What does it mean to say that Paul was an ‘apocalyptic’ thinker?” The…
Ben Jones. Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. In his famous work, The…
Vincenzo Sanguineti. Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Homer is “the Bard of the West.” And “for…
Wojciech Golubiewski. Aquinas on Imitation of Nature: Source of Principles of Moral Action. Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022. “In recent decades, there has…
Peter Neumann. Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits. Trans. Shelley Frisch. New York: Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, 2022. “I saw the Emperor—this world-soul—riding out of…
Alexis De Tocqueville was not an American. But as a political observer and theorist, he is more American than any American; he is also the quintessential writer…