Review 28 January 2018
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Everything We Knew Was Wrong
William Borman
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Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX
by Andrew Willard Jones.
Emmaus Academic, 2017.
Hardcover, 510 pages, $40.
Review 28 January 2018
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Public Relations Disaster
Brian K. Miller
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
by Leanda de Lisle.
PublicAffairs, 2017.
Hardcover, 464 pages, $30.
Review 21 January 2018
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The Beauty of Order
Matthew M. Robare
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The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition
by James Matthew Wilson.
The Catholic University of America Press, 2017.
Paperback, 352 pages, $30.
Review 21 January 2018
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What Can We Learn from Ancient Sophistry?
Ryan Shinkel
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Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates
by Robert C. Bartlett.
University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Hardcover, 272 pages, $40.
Review 14 January 2018
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The Inevitability of Liberal Failure?
Samuel Goldman
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Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick Deneen.
Yale University Press, 2018.
Hardcover, 256 pages, $40.
Books in Little 14 January 2018
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Books in Little: A Certain Freedom
Frank Freeman
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Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis
by Liesl Olson.
Yale University Press, 2017.
Hardcover, 392 pages, $35.
Review 14 January 2018
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The Words of a Giant of the Law
Stephen B. Presser
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Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
by Antonin Scalia,
edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan.
Crown Forum, 2017.
Cloth, 420 pages, $30.
Review 7 January 2018
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We’re in This Together
Sarah Ruden
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Paperback, 608 pages, $17.95.
Review 7 January 2018
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Mistaking Defeat for Victory?
Jesse Merriam
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Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement
by Daniel Bennett.
University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Hardcover, 224 pages, $35.
Review 31 December 2017
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The High Price of Duty
Daniel McCarthy
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The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
by Mark Lilla.
HarperCollins, 2017.
Hardcover, 143 pages, $25.
Review 31 December 2017
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The Problem with Liberalism
Ted McAllister
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce.
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.
Hardcover, 226 pages, $24.
Interview 27 December 2017
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Great Minds and Humble Servants
an interview by Gerald J. Russello
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In this conversation, Philipp Rosemann, general editor of the Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations series, discusses his work to make accessible the work of medieval texts in Latin, and why tradition needs both the major figures and those who help transmit their ideas for new generations.
Review 24 December 2017
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What Happened to Blackford Oakes?
William F. Meehan III
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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
by Alvin S. Felzenberg.
Yale University Press, 2017.
Hardcover, 417 pages, $35.
Review 24 December 2017
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William F. Buckley, Jr. and His Presidents
G. Tracy Mehan, III
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A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
by Alvin S. Felzenberg.
Yale University Press, 2017.
Hardcover, 417 pages, $35.
The moral imagination is the principal possession that man does not share with the beasts. It is man’s power to perceive ethical truth, abiding law, in the seeming chaos of many events. Without the moral imagination, man would live merely day to day, or rather moment to moment, as dogs do. It is the strange faculty—inexplicable if men are assumed to have an animal nature only—of discerning greatness, justice, and order, beyond the bars of appetite and self-interest.
Russell Kirk, Enemies of the Permanent Things, 1969
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