REVIEW: Rethinking the Enlightenment – Joseph Stuart (Sophia Institute Press, 2020)
Author Joseph Stuart’s analysis of the Enlightenment offers new details but no new praxis in its approach to liberalism and Catholicism.
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REVIEW: Blessed Charles of Austria – Charles Coulombe (TAN books, 2020)
Coulombe monographs Blessed Charles of Austria, offering apologia for monarchy and a brief history of the empire’s dismantling in the process.
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REVIEW: Always With Honor – Pyotr Wrangel (Mystery Grove, 2020)
Pyotr Wrangel, leader of one of the White Russian factions during the Russian Civil War, gives his own account of the struggle for Russia’s people–and her soul.
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REVIEW: Copse 125 – Ernst Jünger (1925; Rogue Scholar Press, 2020)
Ernst Junger provides a detailed account of WWI trench warfare, greatly expanding upon The Storm of Steel. Here he includes meditations on nationalism, technology, and daily life on the front: insights contemporary reactionaries could learn from.
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REVIEW: Live Not By Lies – Rod Dreher (Penguin Random House, 2020)
With Live Not by Lies, Rod Dreher continues in much the same vein that his 2016 effort The Benedict Option left off: a practical stab at dealing with the severe cultural rot that lurches ominously toward outright persecution. Where his previous book used the Benedictine Order and its impact on medieval Europe as its framework, Dreher here focuses on the Soviet empire’s totalitarianism and the efforts Christian dissidents used to survive its reign of terror.
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REVIEW: The Storm of Steel – Ernst Jünger (1929; Mystery Grove, 2020)
First published in 1920, Ernst Junger famously depicts the brutal trench warfare of WWI in his visceral memoir.
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REVIEW: The Price of Panic – Axe, Briggs, Richards (Regnery Publishing, 2020)
Are the lock downs worth it? Was the COVID hysteria manufactured? How bad was the pandemic? Writers Axe, Briggs, and Richards address this and more.
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REVIEW: Law & Leviathan – Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule (Belknap Press, 2020)
How should the leviathan be tamed? Sunstein and Vermeule argue that, by realistic standards, it already is. It just has to stay that way.
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REVIEW: Alms for Oblivion – Peter Kemp (1961; Mystery Grove, 2020)
Across these books is the arc of an English law student who, with a certain ideological vigor, abandons his comfortable life in the Isles to throw himself into the dangers, horrors, adventures, and camaraderie of war. But it is a story that has two distinct levels to it: Kemp’s personal trials comprise the obvious tale, but he is also a person active in the machinations of history.
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REVIEW: No Colours or Crest – Peter Kemp (1958; Mystery Grove Publishing, 2020)
From the frozen barracks in northern England and the stony shores of France, to the treacherous mountains of Albania and the snowy tracts of Poland: No Colours or Crest details Kemp’s assignments as part-Commando, part-insurgent across the fields of some of World War II’s least-talked about regions.
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