In this wide-ranging account, the economic historian Niall Ferguson sets out to explain the rise of Western civilization, as well as defend its achievements from the enervating effects of multiculturalism, post-modernism and post-colonialism. Ferguson argues that the economic, social and political institutions of the West still provide the best hope for guaranteeing lives which are meaningful and rewarding, and for solving the problems the modern world faces.

Get married, stay married, work hard and don’t have kids early. A new book from Charles Murray explains why some people succeed and others fail. Grant Morgan reviews Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010.

Peter Newman could have written an insightful analysis on how and why the federal Liberal party was eviscerated. This isn’t it, writes Bob Tarantino in his review of When the Gods Changed….

John Turner was once the heir apparent to Pierre Trudeau. Then came 1984.…Grant Morgan explains…

Chronicle, affirmation, and cri de coeur, A Matter of Principle is Conrad Black’s most personal and gripping book – while also, at times, his most frustrating.

Want to undermine liberal democracies? Gorge yourself on libertine liberties. Michael Wagner, is his review of the new book, The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order, explains…

Saskatchewan and 18th-century Scotland could have a lot in common. In his review of a new book, Birth of a Boom: Saskatchewan’s Dawning Golden Age, Will Randall explains…