Dan Mahoney’s latest book brings together two of the preeminent liberal conservative thinkers of the post–Cold War era. Coming of the intellectual age during the Cold War, the grim possibility of dictatorship is never far from the surface in the copious writings of Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020) and Pierre Manent (1949–). However, both are thinkers for our age, an age in which confidence in Western civilization has cratered and we have lost a healthy understanding of ourselves. Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul is well titled, since all three elements have been marginalized in the West.
