Yearly Archives: 2019

The Great Transformation, published in 1944, is an ambitious book. It attempts two huge tasks. First, to refute the free market ideology, sometimes called...

Interest in Polynesia is not much in fashion nowadays, except for using the islands as an exemplar of the claimed, always imminent yet never...

A Time to Die is a small gem of a book which works on two levels. On one level, it is a self-examination for...

I am trying to understand how human beings create value through their actions, and what that implies for humanity. Although this goal is hardly...

We all like to imagine ourselves as heroes. We watch movies, and we instinctively put ourselves in the place of the hero, not in...

This book defies easy characterization. It is, to be sure, a biography of the last of the great German medieval emperors, Frederick II Hohenstaufen....

Attacks on digital technology for destroying our capacity for attention are a dime a dozen. Despite its title, Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your...

Economic inequality is, and has been for several years now, the talk of the town. But most of this talk is political—of economic goods...

Rusty Reno, editor of the prominent religious conservative journal First Things, here couples an original diagnosis of how we got to the vicious decay...

Different eras view Alexander III of Macedon differently. Though always honored as a hugely successful military leader and conqueror, in the ancient world, he...

I am a Sohrab Ahmari fanboy. I endorse his recent full-throated calls for creation of a post-liberal future, and admire that he has boldly...

I am fascinated by what is to come. For someone who came of age imbibing the narrow, facile, weak, always-second-place conservative pieties of the...