I am delighted and honored by the news that I have made the list of finalists for ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year:

Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale University Press)

Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy (Crown Forum)

Yoram Hazony, The Virtue of Nationalism (Basic Books)

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Penguin Press)

Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books)

It’s great company, and while it’s a cliché to say it’s an honor just to be nominated, it’s an honor just to be nominated. The winner will be announced in Chicago in March (details here).