Book Reviews

Madison and Jefferson: A New Perspective on the Great Collaboration

On your last visit to Washington, D.C., did you stand marvelling at the size and craftsmanship of the Lincoln Memorial? Did you pause...

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 8, 2010

Passage Was Only the Beginning: Books on Ratification

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. November 2, 2010

Despite the steadiness of the stream, the fertile field of “Founders Literature” never seems to reach a saturation point. Recently, a flood of...

A Review of “Antiquity as the Source of Modernity”

James Heiser November 1, 2010

For those readers with an interest in the intellectual roots of modern conservative thought, one may well describe Thomas Chaimowicz’s Antiquity as the...

When “Almost” Isn’t Good Enough

Michael Tennant October 14, 2010

“Let me save you some trouble,” author Kenda Creasy Dean says in the very first sentence of her book Almost Christian: What the...

A Review of “Spanish Texas, 1519-1821”

James Heiser October 12, 2010

In an age of American culture wars against the particularities of the various regions of these United States, many citizens act as if...

Review of Sowell’s “Dismantling America”

Raven Clabough September 30, 2010

Leading economist and writer Thomas Sowell has a talent for simplifying difficult concepts and applying common sense when analyzing the issues plaguing America...

A Global-warming Primer

Rebecca Terrell September 17, 2010

Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, by Brian Sussman, Washington, D.C.: World Net Daily, 2010, 224 pages, hardcover.Gideons International should...

A Review of Spencer’s “Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran”

James Heiser September 14, 2010

For years, Robert Spencer has endured insults and death threats because of his endeavors as director of Jihad Watch. If one tells the...

A Review of Jones’ “New Heroes in Antiquity”

James Heiser September 8, 2010

“What does it take to make a hero?” For anyone paying even scant attention to the lavish manner in which the media awards...

Preserving the Past for the Present

September 2, 2010

In a day when the limited constitutional government our Founders bequeathed to us has been disfigured almost beyond recognition, when the principles of...

Review of “Pursuing Liberty”

Raven Clabough August 18, 2010

Authors Cory Emberson and Rick Lindstrom believe that Americans have taken their freedoms for granted. Because of this, they sought out “Americans by...

William Hogeland’s Declaration: A Review

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. August 12, 2010

A reader unfamiliar with the history of the complex admixture of conflict, compromises, condescension, and coercion that led to the “shot heard ‘round...

Bringing America Home

Dennis Behreandt August 11, 2010

Talk about self-evident patriotism! In Tom Pauken’s latest, Bringing America Home, here is a writer who’s heart and mind unabashedly rings out ‘God!...