Book Reviews

The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order (Philip Pilkington)

We all want to know comes next, because we sense that it will be very different from what came before. This is a book not so much about our uncertain future, but about why...

Leaving a Legacy: Inheritance, Charity, & Thousand-Year Families (Johann Kurtz)

The Great Commission of the modern age is not to bring the Gospel to all nations. It is to CONSOOM! Thus, a man’s perceived success in life is determined mostly by how many resources...

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity (Paul Kingsnorth)

In the Book of Daniel, the prophet interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of an awesome statue. It boasts a golden head and silver body, but it has feet of iron mixed with clay. And when those...

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Sebastian Junger)

I am not sure how often most people think about death. For myself, I think about my death several dozen times per day. This is not a morbid fixation, merely focused self-interest combined with...

Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World (Richard Middleton)

To the extent most people ever think about Charles, Earl Cornwallis, they think of him as portrayed in Mel Gibson’s film The Patriot. There he is an aged, somewhat hapless, conflicted military officer, ultimately...

The Essential Paul Gottfried: Essays from 1984–2024 (Paul Gottfried)

Paul Gottfried is a great man, and you should read this book. He has spent decades offering a consistent political message, paleoconservatism, a name he coined. Of itself, his philosophy would certainly be of...

Stoner (John Williams)

When I was very young, my mother told me that the chief value of good fiction is it allows the reader to better understand other men and women. Even so, I have never read...

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (Judith M. Bennett)

History is the story of what resulted from the acts of great men, directly and indirectly, buffeted by fortune. Thus, in the Middle Ages, as in every age, what the common people did in...

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail (Stephen Taylor)

Among the first books I read, when around five years of age, were some written by my great uncle, Charles Frye Haywood, after whom I am named. He was a lawyer in Lynn, Massachusetts,...

John Chrysostom on the Roman Empire: A Study on the Political Thought of the Early Church (Constantine Bozinis)

In late modernity a strange delusion has taken hold among many Christians. They have come to believe that democracy, broad popular participation in how a society is governed, is a morally superior political system,...