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...
Book Reviews
Passage Was Only the Beginning: Books on Ratification
Despite the steadiness of the stream, the fertile field of “Founders Literature” never seems to reach a saturation point. Recently, a flood of...
Read moreA Review of “Antiquity as the Source of Modernity”
For those readers with an interest in the intellectual roots of modern conservative thought, one may well describe Thomas Chaimowicz’s Antiquity as the...
Read moreWhen “Almost” Isn’t Good Enough
“Let me save you some trouble,” author Kenda Creasy Dean says in the very first sentence of her book Almost Christian: What the...
Read moreA Review of “Spanish Texas, 1519-1821”
In an age of American culture wars against the particularities of the various regions of these United States, many citizens act as if...
Read moreReview of Sowell’s “Dismantling America”
Leading economist and writer Thomas Sowell has a talent for simplifying difficult concepts and applying common sense when analyzing the issues plaguing America...
Read moreA Global-warming Primer
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...
Read moreA Review of Spencer’s “Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran”
For years, Robert Spencer has endured insults and death threats because of his endeavors as director of Jihad Watch. If one tells the...
Read moreA Review of Jones’ “New Heroes in Antiquity”
“What does it take to make a hero?” For anyone paying even scant attention to the lavish manner in which the media awards...
Read morePreserving the Past for the Present
In a day when the limited constitutional government our Founders bequeathed to us has been disfigured almost beyond recognition, when the principles of...
Read moreReview of “Pursuing Liberty”
Authors Cory Emberson and Rick Lindstrom believe that Americans have taken their freedoms for granted. Because of this, they sought out “Americans by...
Read moreWilliam Hogeland’s Declaration: A Review
A reader unfamiliar with the history of the complex admixture of conflict, compromises, condescension, and coercion that led to the “shot heard ‘round...
Read moreBringing America Home
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!...
Read moreBook Review: “Why We’re All Romans”
When it comes to the totality of our lives, Americans (and all Westerners) are culturally Hebrew, Greek, and Roman. We owe our intellectual...
Read moreBook Reveals Neo-Con Influence in GOP
Tom Pauken, a lawyer and conservative political activist hailing from Texas, wrote Bringing Home America: How America Lost Her Way and How We...
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