Andrew E. Busch

2 days ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | John McWhorter |Jeffrey Anderson |Christopher Caldwell |Andrew E. Busch

Download There is a rhyme in Ira Gershwin’s lyric for “Someone to Watch Over Me” that is easily missed when the song is sung in a rhythmically flexible ballad style, as it usually is today:Although he may not be the man someGirls think of as handsomeTo my heart he’ll carry the key. That level of quiet yet fierce craft is classic Ira Gershwin, and yet it is no surprise that Michael Owen’s Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words is the first full-length biography of him.

2 months ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Barry Strauss |Christopher Caldwell |Andrew E. Busch |Daniel Mahoney

Ptolemaic Egypt is a paradox. The kingdom was founded by Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. It lasted for about three centuries, from 305 to 30 B.C.—roughly the length of the Hellenistic period that followed Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. Its long-term contribution to civilization was enormous.

2 months ago | claremontreviewofbooks.com | Daniel Mahoney |Andrew E. Busch |Joseph M. Bessette |William Voegeli

No, all hope cannot be pinned on science, technology, or economic growth. Victorious technological civilization has simultaneously instilled in us a spiritual insecurity. Certainly, its gifts enrich, but enslave us as well. All is interests, we must not neglect our interests, all is a struggle for material things; but an inner voice faintly prompts us that we’ve lost something pure, elevated—and fragile. We have ceased to see the purpose.

Aug 24, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Andrew E. Busch |Zack Yost |David R. Upham |Graham McAleer

I am grateful for Zack Yost’s August 17 critique of my August 4 article on Ukraine. There are certainly points on which we agree. Mr. Yost is right to be concerned about the fiscal condition of the United States. He is also quite right that the West needs to act decisively to replenish military stockpiles, which is why Britain, Germany, and the United States are significantly expanding production of artillery and tank shells.

Aug 17, 2023 | lawliberty.org | Zack Yost |Andrew E. Busch |Dave Barfield |Elizabeth Amato

In his essay from August 4, Andrew E. Busch argues that opponents of providing aid to Ukraine have made a “feeble” case, identifying three arguments in particular that he finds lacking: that we should be focusing on issues at home rather than abroad; that the government of Ukraine is suppressing Russian Orthodox Christianity; and that the conflict is yet another endless war that America has become entangled in. This response will address the first and third points that Busch makes.