This week the conservative educational foundation ISI announced its 2023 Conservative Book of the Year. Known as the Paolucci Book Award, it has been bestowed in recent years on volumes by such worthies as Victor Davis Hanson, Wilfred McClay, Angelo Codevilla, Andrew Roberts, and Philip Hamburger. This year’s recipient, the eminent political philosopher Daniel J. Mahoney’s The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation (Encounter Books), is a fitting meditation for the holiday we will celebrate Monday—Presidents’ Day—and for the beginnings of the presidential race for 2024.
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