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Adrian Vermeule, originalism, Chevron deference, Mollie Hemingway, Justice Kagan, Justice Sotomayor, Roe v Wade, Dobbs v Jackson, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Samuel Alito,
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June 1, 2026June 1, 2026Reviews

Middle America’s Jurist

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In ‘Alito,’ Mollie Hemingway describes the formation and explains the thought of Middle America’s voice on the high court: Justice Samuel Alito.

National Review, Eugene O’Neill, Jr., Fusionism, The Road to Serfdom, Earl Browder, Frank Meyer,
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Reviews

Frank the Fusioneer

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Daniel J. Flynn argues that Frank Meyer brought a lot more to the conservative table than musings about "fusionism." Meyer built the movement's infrastructure.

A Court of Thorns and Roses, , Terry Brooks, Robert Jordan, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, J. K. Rowling,
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Reviews

Grimdark Gets A Heart

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George R. R. Martin's 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' brings back many of the admirable attributes of old-school fantasy fiction.

Sam Tanenhaus, William F. Buckley, Ronald Reagan, conservatism, Firing Line, Up From Liberalism, Iraq War, National Review,
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February 1, 2026February 2, 2026Reviews

Our Boy Bill

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Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Bill Buckley reveals new stories, but it doesn't locate the core of the man's conservatism or where he wanted the movement to go.

The Death of the West, Life Without Father,
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December 1, 2025December 1, 2025Reviews

What We Are Reading: December 2025

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When Patrick Buchanan’s 2000 Reform Party presidential campaign ended in failure, National Review mocked the end of a “glorious career.” Not so fast. A new phase of that career—that of a best-selling author—was just beginning. Two years later, Buchanan published his blockbuster The Death of the West, which sat atop of bestseller lists for months....

‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt
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December 1, 2025December 19, 2025Reviews

‘Jim Snow’ Has Begun to Melt

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There are increasing signs that the era of white guilt and socially approved racism against whites is at an end. The publication of Jason Riley's 'The Affirmative Action Myth' is one such sign.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, Julius Evola, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler,
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December 1, 2025December 1, 2025Reviews

Aristocracy: What Is It Good For?

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'Aristocratic Voices' explores the aristocratic side of conservative thought, through a variety of unconventional figures who defended traditional social elites and criticized democratic equality.

Some Are More Equal than Others
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November 1, 2025November 19, 2025Reviews

Some Are More Equal than Others

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Economists of the left, such as Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel, push utopian egalitarianism based on the premise that inequality is a social ill, rather than a universal feature of human society.

The Nightmare of Californication
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November 1, 2025November 10, 2025Reviews

The Nightmare of Californication

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"Fool's Gold" shows how the quality of life in Newsom's California is rapidly declining due to lawlessness, crippling regulations, and corruption within government, corporations, and the courts.

The Political Roots of Science
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November 1, 2025November 1, 2025Reviews

The Political Roots of Science

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Restoring Science and the Rule of Law by Michael Esfeld and Cristian Lopez Palgrave Macmillan 224 pp., $109.99 Modernity, we are told, was erected upon the twin pillars of empirical inquiry and individual sovereignty. The two now lay crushed beneath the weight of their own overgrown progeny: the scientistic priesthood and the goliath of welfare...

Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, Eric Schmidt, Stanley K. Ridgley, DEI Exposed: How the Biggest Con of the Century Almost Toppled Higher Education, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit,
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November 1, 2025November 1, 2025Reviews

Books in Brief: November 2025

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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, by Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt (Little, Brown and Company; 288 pp., $30.00). This is Henry Kissinger’s last book. But, since he died before it was finished, it is disproportionately influenced by the former Nixon Secretary of State’s co-authors, executives from Microsoft and Google....

wokeism, Succession, Bridgerton, Yellowstone, The White Lotus, Palm Royale, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale,
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November 1, 2025November 1, 2025Reviews

Downton Abbey Finally Wraps Up

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This is the third and mercifully final feature film in Julian Fellowes’s long-running 'Downton Abbey' franchise, which kicked off a wave of costumed period dramas characterized by cloying sentimentality and woke inclusivity.

What We Are Reading: October 2025
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October 1, 2025October 1, 2025Reviews

What We Are Reading: October 2025

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James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935) packed a great deal of both writing and left-wing activism into a short life. From an Aberdeenshire farming background, he worked in journalism, wrote fiction admired by H. G. Wells, and helped set up the Aberdeen Soviet. His trilogy, A Scots Quair, is still read in Scotland. He joined the military...