• Fighting Words

    By JOHN FABIAN WITT

    Review of Civil Wars: A History in Ideas, by David Armitage

    March 06, 2017
  • Revolution in the Eye of Sayyid Qutb

    By ANTHONY TSONTAKIS

    Review of Sayyid Qutb: The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic Intellectual, by James Toth

    February 13, 2017
  • Law's Province

    By PETER SCHUCK

    Review of Law’s Abnegation: From Law’s Empire to the Administrative State, by Adrian Vermeule

    February 06, 2017
  • Follow the Money

    By LILIAN CALLES BARGER

    Review of The Market as God, by Harvey Cox

    December 05, 2016
  • The Trouble with Incentives

    By DIMITRIOS HALIKIAS

    Review of The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are no Substitute for Good Citizens, by Samuel Bowles

    November 21, 2016
  • The Shame of Work

    By JOHN DANAHER

    Review of The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work, by David Frayne

    November 13, 2016
  • Imaginings

    By RICHARD F. THOMAS

    Review of Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, by Tim Whitmarsh

    November 07, 2016
  • Were the Framers Democrats?

    By CASS SUNSTEIN

    Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman

    October 31, 2016
  • The Safety of the People Is the Supreme Law

    By DAVID DYZENHAUS

    Review of Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution, by Benjamin Straumann

    October 25, 2016
  • The People Reconsidered

    By AZIZ HUQ

    Review of The Sleeping Sovereign: The Invention of Modern Democracy, by Richard Tuck

    October 17, 2016
  • The Federal Reserve’s Big Bang and the Challenge of Institutional History

    By PETER CONTI-BROWN

    Review of America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve, by Roger Lowenstein

    October 10, 2016
  • Religiously Correct

    By DIANA MUIR APPELBAUM

    Review of exhibit Jerusalem 1000 - 1400: Every People under Heaven (Sept. 26, 2016 through Jan. 8, 2017)

    October 03, 2016
  • Neoclassical Administrative Common Law

    By JEFFREY A. POJANOWSKI

    Review of Administrative Justice and the Supremacy of Law in the United States, by John Dickinson

    September 26, 2016
  • Bringing the Basic Income Back to Earth

    By DANIEL HEMEL

    Review of Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream, by Andy Stern with Lee Kravitz, and In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (Revised and Updated Edition), by Charles Murray

    September 19, 2016
  • Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

    By DAVID SKEEL

    Review of Augustine: Conversions to Confessions, by Robin Lane Fox

    September 12, 2016
  • The Past Is a Foreign Country

    By DONNA ROBINSON DIVINE

    Review of A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State, by Orit Rozin, translated by Haim Watzman

    September 06, 2016
  • Humbly Speaking

    By LAEL WEINBERGER

    Review of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference, by John D. Inazu

    August 29, 2016
  • Realpolitik or Realism?

    By RAJAN MENON

    Review of Realpolitik: A History, by John Bew

    August 22, 2016
  • Forgive and Forget

    By ANDREW STARK

    Review of Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice, by Martha C. Nussbaum

    August 15, 2016
  • Alien Ideas

    By MATTHEW LISTER

    Review of Strangers in our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration, by David Miller

    August 08, 2016