Gerald Russello is a writer, editor, and legal scholar known for his work on conservative intellectual history and cultural commentary. He is the editor of The University Bookman and has written extensively on law, culture, and the history of ideas. He contributed book reviews and essays to The Weekly Standard between 2014 and 2018.
In October 1797, 42-year-old John Marshall arrived in Paris with Charles Pinckney and Elbridge Gerry, the three of them constituting an official American commission charged with defusing tensions arising from the larger war between England and France. Both belligerents were seizing American ships…
In 1990’s classic The Matrix, the lead character realizes that the world he thought he knew was false, and that the truth about his society was being hidden by a hostile power. Many conservatives have a similarly Matrix-like moment in their intellectual development, that moment when they realize…
Before Robert Baratheon or Ned Stark, from the hugely popular Game of Thrones series, there were Beowulf and Hrothgar; and Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons have nothing on their prototype, a fearsome beast called the Guardian of the Hoard, which Beowulf fights to the death.