New podcast

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This month, I joined Corey Astill in launching a podcast. The Conservative Minds Podcast is dedicated to examining conservative intellectual history to determine the core values of American conservatism. We look at a different book each week and discuss what the author’s views about conservatism mean in his time and our own, and examine what it means to be a conservative in modern America.

Check out the show’s website and please download the first episode. 

Two book reviews

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I’ve got two book reviews up this week:

The first, at National Review Online, is a review of William Anthony Hay’s Lord Liverpool: A Political Life, in which I take a look at the United Kingdom’s longest-serving Prime Minister and how he affected the development of Anglo-American conservatism.

The second, at University Bookman, is of Carl Lawrence Paulus’s The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War, where I discuss the author’s analysis of the effect of foreign emancipation and slave revolts on the slavery debate in America.