July 12, 2024

Victor Davis Hanson on the Illusion of Invincibility

The End of Everything: How Wars Descend Into Annihilation, Victor Davis Hanson.  Basic Books, 2024.  287 pp. Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book is a macabre warning to an aging America as it closes in on its 250th birthday....

November 21, 2021

Hanson on Citizenship

Defining terms is always a good place to begin a conversation and Victor Davis Hanson’s The Dying Citizen. How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America (Basic Books) weaves a rich defini...

March 20, 2021

The Strange History of Progressivism

 Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C.S. Watson.  University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.  219 pp As my former constitutional law professor would say, “Constitutional government means limited gover...

June 16, 2019

Victor Davis Hanson on The Case for Trump

The Case for Trump, Victor Davis Hanson. Basic Books, 2019. 372 pp.  As the title suggests, The Case for Trump, balances a clinical approach to our currently incendiary politics alongside a brief for Donald Trump’s presidency. ...

September 13, 2014

A Troubling Book: Nicholas Wade's Genetic Theory of Race and History

When I read Nicholas Wade’s op-ed in The Wall Street Journal of June 22nd, I admired his chutzpah and was equally intrigued by his emphasis on heredity and “race” as a counterpoint to the liberal-progressive myth that man is a malle...

August 14, 2014

The truth about science and religion

In 1925 the renowned philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead speaking to scholars at Harvard said that science originated in Christian Europe in the 13th century.  Whitehead pointed out that science arose from “the medieval i...