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Empire’s Bloody End
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June 1, 2023July 27, 2023Reviews

Empire’s Bloody End

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In A Continent Erupts Ronald Spector analyzes the complex conflicts of East and Southeast Asia in the 10 years after the end of World War II.

A Colonial History of African-Americans
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May 1, 2023May 31, 2023Reviews

A Colonial History of African-Americans

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In African Founders, David Hackett Fischer asserts that the traditions of liberty, equality, and the rule of law often transcended the evils of slavery in early America and were embraced, with impressive results, by masters and slaves alike.

Books in Brief: April 2023
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April 4, 2023May 3, 2023Reviews

Books in Brief: April 2023

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Short reviews of Interventions 2020, by Michel Houellebecq, and The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great Power Rivalry Today, by Hal Brands.

Soldiers of Burden
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March 1, 2023April 14, 2023Reviews

Soldiers of Burden

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Outsourcing Duty tackles the issues that arise in countries where a large majority of citizens avoid military service and isolate themselves from the risks and moral responsibilities that soldiers face.

Zero Plus Ten
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March 1, 2023April 13, 2023Reviews

Zero Plus Ten

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Harald Jähner's Aftermath offers a panoramic view of the process of recovery for Germans in all occupation zones during the first 10 years after World War II.

Stan Evans: Unsung Hero of the Right
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March 1, 2023April 12, 2023Reviews

Stan Evans: Unsung Hero of the Right

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Despite his significant contributions to the post-WWII right in America, M. Stanton Evans is not as well-known as his many accomplishments warrant. Steven Hayward's new biography sets the record straight.

Four Women Against the Oxford Dons
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February 1, 2023March 17, 2023Reviews

Four Women Against the Oxford Dons

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In the 1930s and '40s, four female students at Oxford challenged the dons with an intellectually vigorous return to Aristotle and classical and medieval approaches to a philosophy of human action.

Books in Brief: February 2023
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February 1, 2023February 1, 2023Reviews

Books in Brief: February 2023

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Brief reviews of Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, by Benedict Beckeld, and The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845–1872, by Daniel J. Burge.

The Age of Nixon
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January 1, 2023February 22, 2023Reviews

The Age of Nixon

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Russell Kirk, a venerated conservative man of letters, weighs in on Nixon’s response to the media-incited campaign against him, from the July 1990 issue of Chronicles.

Clap & Trap
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January 1, 2023February 17, 2023Reviews

Clap & Trap

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John Lukacs dissects the self-important claim that after the fall of the Soviet Union, world history would culminate in the inevitable acceptance of the American “liberal democratic” model worldwide.

The Costs of Culture
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January 1, 2023January 9, 2023Reviews

The Costs of Culture

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M. E. Bradford illuminates the problem of a government agency, the NEH, that claims to promote “culture” but has instead become a source of handouts to well-connected educational institutions.

Unsmearing Warren G. Harding
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December 1, 2022February 15, 2023Reviews

Unsmearing Warren G. Harding

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In The Jazz Age President, Ryan Walters sets the record straight about the often-misrepresented Warren G. Harding, who, in his brief time as president, led the country out of a crisis.

The Wehrmacht in Their Own Words
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December 1, 2022March 25, 2024Reviews

The Wehrmacht in Their Own Words

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By allowing the German soldiers to speak, historian David Harrisville helps us to see World War II through their eyes, almost sympathetically. Many were devoted Christians who saw the war as a struggle against "godless" and "inhumane" Soviets.

Books in Brief: November 2022
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November 1, 2022November 1, 2022Reviews

Books in Brief: November 2022

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Short reviews of Free: A Child and a History at the End of History, by Lea Ypi, and The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free-Market Era, by Gary Gerstle.

Of Opposite Minds: Maistre and Mill
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November 1, 2022December 16, 2022Reviews

Of Opposite Minds: Maistre and Mill

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Joseph de Maistre, a brilliant wordsmith, was an elegant defender of the old order, while John Stuart Mill, in his plodding prose, helped to usher in welfare democracy and the modern administrative state.

Race Erased
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November 1, 2022December 12, 2022Reviews

Race Erased

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Racism, Not Race starts from the assumption that biological races do not exist, rants leftward from there, and finishes by slapping the white-supremacist label on Trump voters.

Rings of Intersectionality
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November 1, 2022November 25, 2022Reviews

Rings of Intersectionality

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Just as a conquering army defaces the monuments of its defeated foes, America’s woke film industry has seized the opportunity in Rings of Power to have its way with the mythology of Tolkien's Men of the West.

Defense of the American Vision
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October 1, 2022November 18, 2022Reviews

Defense of the American Vision

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Gordon Wood shows how far we have drifted from the Founding Fathers' vision of a polity that would limit arbitrary power in order that the government might serve the people rather than tyrannize them.

Inhabiting the Mind of the Murderer
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October 1, 2022November 2, 2022Reviews

Inhabiting the Mind of the Murderer

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Kevin Birmingham reconstructs the aspects of Dostoevsky’s life that fed the stream of creativity that resulted in Crime and Punishment, the greatest psychological profile of a murderer in the annals of fiction.

A Cause, Not a Revolution
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September 1, 2022October 21, 2022Reviews

A Cause, Not a Revolution

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In The Cause, Pulitzer prize-winning historian Joseph Ellis paints a fascinating picture of the American Revolution through the lenses of those who lived and participated in it.