George Shultz and the Cold War
Those who have any interest in US foreign policy during the last 50 years know the name George Shultz, a towering figure in diplomacy in the Reagan years. Like his…
Reading it Wrong
Image: Alexander Pope Dr. Abigail Williams, professor of eighteenth-century studies at the University of Oxford, makes a startling admission in this book. As a teacher of 18thC literature, she would…
The Light and Dark Sides of God
Photo: Jacob Boehme I take the title of this review from a book title of 1650. It appears near the end of this fascinating book by Kevin Killeen, Professor in…
Challenges of the Baroque
Baroque was not a term used at the time we now think of as the Baroque era, but it is the classic term for that which is not classic, referring…
Exploring a Socratic Dialogue
There is renewed attention to the Plato’s Euthyphro. In 2017 Harvard University Press updated a version in the famous Loeb Classic series, begun in 1911. In 1914 the Loeb published…
T. S. Eliot and the Nucleus of Modernism
Ask a group of poetry experts what the most consequential poem of the 20th century was. The majority vote will most likely be The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. Written…
Landscape and Authority
The nine studies in this book edited by Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld, University of London) cover a wide range, both geographically and temporally. Their topic is the role of landscape…
Knowledge Lost
In these days of book-banning in America, the we must ask ourselves about the nature of knowledge. Faced with the onslaught of the thought police (who masquerade as elected state…
The Mob has Overthrown every Free Republic
University of Texas professor H.W. Brands has written another important book on American history. Perhaps best known for his book on FDR (Traitor to His Class), Brands holds the Jack…
Heracles: The Garland of Greece
This study of Heracles (better known by his Roman name Hercules) derives from the PhD thesis of Sofia Frade. She is now Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon; during…