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Utopian Temptation
Why Liberalism Failedby patrick j. deneenyale, 248 pages, $30 Patrick Deneen asserts that liberalism has failed. He also asserts (in a recent article) that “the exceedingly narrow victory of...
City, Empire, Church
Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamicby pierre manentharvard, 384 pages, $39.95 Today little attention is paid to the historic visions of the best form of political order,...
Sullivan’s Travels
The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, and How to Get It Back by Andrew Sullivan. HarperCollins, 304 pages, $25.95. Andrew Sullivan’s most evident theme is that there are...
