From The Intercollegiate Review, James R. Stoner, Jr. (LSU): The Timeliness and Timelessness of Magna Carta; and Donald W. Livingston (Emory): David Hume and the Conservative Tradition. From Front Porch Republic, who was Richard Blaine? An article on myth, history, and the great American conversation. A review of Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers by Paul E. Gottfried. A review of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law by Steven M. Teles. Abandon all hope: A review of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism by John Derbyshire. Paul Johnson is looking for a true conservative (and more and more and more and more on The Death of Conservatism by Sam Tanenhaus). A review of The Best of The American Spectator’s The Continuing Crisis as Chronicled for Four Decades by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. From TAS, a review of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism by John Derbyshire; and Roger Scruton on totalitarian sentimentality. The New York Times Magazine profiles Robert P. George, a Princeton University professor of jurisprudence and a Roman Catholic, and this country’s most influential conservative Christian thinker. A Tale of Two Libertarianisms: A review of Rothbard vs the Philosophers. Peter Berkowitz reviews Reappraising the Right: The Past and Future of American Conservatism by George H. Nash. A review of The 5 Big Lies About American Business: Combating Smears Against the Free-Market Economy by Michael Medved.
