Give Me Liberty: Studies in Constitutionalism and Philosophy. Ellis Sandoz. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2013.[1] “And I too am a painter.”[2] Montesquieu invokes these…
The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree. William D. Gairdner. New York: Encounter Books, 2015. In this, his eleventh book, Canadian scholar…
The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America. F.H. Buckley. New York: Encounter Books, 2014. A national book chain in Canada has…
The Loss and Recovery of Truth. Gerhart Niemeyer with Michael Henry, ed. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2013. Those who come to America’s shores, and…
The Metamorpheses of the City: On the Western Dynamic. Pierre Manent with Marc LePain, trans. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. One of the most intriguing…
[Election] law, however, is not an autonomous sphere with its own laws of justice. It does not have the purpose of giving every ethnic group with special…
It surprises me as a newcomer to this circle that entrepreneurs have been apparently forced onto the defensive by an image of the entrepreneur whose characteristics come…
[Aristotle was plagued by such problems as whether a nation remained the same nation after a revolution]. He applied to the polis the categories of form and…
Before There were Conservatives and Liberals Partisan polarization, they say, is producing an "existential crisis"–pundit language for "disturbing situation suggesting the end of life as we know…
Oakeshott on Rome and America. Eugene Callahan. Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic, 2012. Oakeshott’s critique of Rationalism is the most famous part of his corpus and also…
The Covenants from Abraham to David We will consider here the merits and limitations of covenantal social thinking and ask whether such ideas have relevance today. While…
Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology. Glenn A. Moots. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2010. I suspect that Glenn Moots is a great…
The wars and revolutions of the twentieth century bring to its end a period that begins with the consolidation of the Western national states in the fifteenth…
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…