California Literary Review

Articles written for the California Literary Review:

• Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
  Posted on 22 Apr 2007 in History, Native American, Non-Fiction Reviews
  

  Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.

• The Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming
  Posted on 22 Apr 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Philosophy
  

  Dr. Fleming argues that since the birth of classical liberalism in the seventeenth century, a century that gave us “universality, rationality, individualism, objectivity, and abstract idealism,” Western Civilization has developed a flaw in its ethics, moral behavior, and thus in the construction of its state apparatus.

• James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
  Posted on 22 Apr 2007 in Biography, History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
  

  Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk.

• Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
  Posted on 22 Apr 2007 in Agriculture, Fiction Reviews, Sociology
  

  There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family farms. Then, the primary objective of the American farmer was to be debt free, to be independent. I was made aware of this “independence” many years ago when my mother-in-law, Jessie Hobbs, the daughter of a West Virginia farmer, once commented about her childhood, “We didn’t know there was a depression.”

• Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred by John Lukacs
  Posted on 11 Apr 2007 in History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics, Religion
  

  You may not like what he says, you may not agree with his conclusions, but his thinking and his writing are so broad, rich, and in-depth that all but the most iconoclastic, the most radicalized, is forced to consider his perspectives.

• An Interview With Thomas E. Woods Jr.
  Posted on 03 Apr 2007 in History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
  

  “The book takes a strongly antistatist position, and advances views that used to be common among conservatives but that today you simply don’t hear anymore.”

• An Interview With Chilton Williamson
  Posted on 31 Mar 2007 in History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
  

  “I am against all organizations with the word “World” in their names. As for free trade, it is a strategy of deracinated corporations to enrich themselves at the expense of discrete nations and their peoples.”

• Liberalism, the Election, and the Republican Party
  Posted on 26 Mar 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
  

  With President George W. Bush’s recent victory the Democratic Party-referred to in prior times as the “Democracy”-finds itself in disarray and denial, though the source of the myriad of weaknesses that afflict that political entity are really quite obvious.