Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State By Mark Lawrence Schrad (Oxford, 512 pages, $35)…
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and LeftBy Yuval Levin(Basic, 296 pages, $27.99) [[{“type”:”media”,”view_mode”:”media_large”,”fid”:”94162″,”attributes”:{“alt”:””,”class”:”media-image”,”height”:”480″,”style”:”float: right;”,”typeof”:”foaf:Image”,”width”:”308″}}]]…
TWO THINGS ALL conservatives love are narratives of decline and talking about conservatism. Put those together and you have the…
ANY CONSERVATIVE who expends energy denouncing relativism is wasting his time fighting the last war. Relativism was quite a force…
The following things are not news: Craven horse-trading in the New York state legislature, that State Sen. Pedro Espada plays…
Ross Douthat doesn’t know it, but his column this morning was written in 1772. Justus Moser took a harder line…
