Interview 10 December 2017
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Literature as Counterculture
an interview by Allen Mendenhall
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Mendenhall talks with Robert P. Waxler, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and a founder of the Changing Lives Through Literature program, about themes in his most recent work, Why Reading Books Still Matters.
Review 10 December 2017
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The Enigma of the Black Republican
Kareim Oliphant
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The Loneliness of the Black Republican: Pragmatic Politics and the Pursuit of Power
by Leah Wright Rigueur.
Princeton University Press, 2015.
Hardcover, 432 pages, $37.50.
Essay 3 December 2017
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One Hundred Years of Communism
Francis P. Sempa
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Sempa discusses the history, atrocities, and appeal of communism on the hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution. He recaps books including the Black Book of Communism, the Gulag Archipelago, and The Harvest of Sorrows.
Review 3 December 2017
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The Ambitious Intellectual
Ann-Michele Sproviero
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Susan Sontag: the Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated
by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock.
University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
Paperback, 368 pages, $30.
Review 26 November 2017
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Edwards: From the Beginning of the Right
George H. Nash
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Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty
by Lee Edwards.
ISI Books, 2017.
Hardcover, 378 pages, $29.95.
Review 26 November 2017
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The Catholic Novel in an Age of Political Correctness
Trevor C. Merrill
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Oregon Confetti,
by Lee Oser.
Wiseblood Books, 2017
Paper, 309 pages, $13.
Review 19 November 2017
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First States, then Nation
Richard M. Gamble
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The American Revolution, State Sovereignty, and the American Constitutional Settlement, 1765–1800
by Aaron N. Coleman.
Lexington Books, 2016.
Paper, 259 pages, $46.99.
Review 19 November 2017
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The Ark of Tradition
Adrian Vermeule
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Roman Catholicism and Political Form
by Carl Schmitt, translated by G. L. Ulmen.
Praeger, (1923) 1996.
Hardcover, 112 pages, $94.
Review 12 November 2017
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The Education of Franklin Foer
Stephen Schmalhofer
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World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer.
Penguin Press, 2017.
Hardcover, 272 pages, $27.
Review 12 November 2017
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Frederick Turner, Bard and Prophet
Thomas F. Bertonneau
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Apocalypse: An Epic Poem
by Frederick Turner.
The Ilium Press, 2016.
Hardcover, 352 pages, $25.
Review 5 November 2017
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The McKinley Mystery
Carl Rollyson
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President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
by Robert W. Merry.
Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Hardcover, 624 pages, $35.
Books in Little 5 November 2017
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Books in Little: The Disaffected
Robert Grano
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The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality
by Justin Gest.
Oxford University Press, 2016.
Paper, xiii + 249 pages, $24.95
Review 29 October 2017
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Discipline and Desire
Steven Knepper
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Some Permanent Things
by James Matthew Wilson.
Wiseblood Books, 2014.
Paperback, 156 pages, $16.50.
Essay 29 October 2017
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Shining a Light on Dark Deeds
Ashlee Cowles
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The Moral Imagination in the Mystery Novels of Sally Wright
A “conservative character [is] suspicious of doctrinaire alteration, respectful toward history, preferring variety over uniformity, acknowledging a moral order composed of human persons, not of mere political and economic atoms subservient to the state.”
Russell Kirk, A Program for Conservatives, 1954
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