Dear John, 

The judges have voted, and the 2022 Conservative Book of the Year award goes to . . .

Victor Davis Hanson for The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.

In his review of book for National Review, ISI Professor of the Year Award winner Daniel J. Mahoney described the book as "indispensable . . . [Hanson's] inspiriting book offers a most welcome corrective to those influential forces and doctrines in our midst that conspire to delegitimize the citizen and citizenship as such. In doing so, he provides us with hope that our society still has within it significant powers of rejuvenation."

The Dying Citizen prevailed in an impressive field. 

The other finalists for the 2022 award were Donald J. Devine's The Enduring Tension, Erika Bachiochi's The Rights of Women, Sohrab Ahmari's The Unbroken Thread, Helen Andrews's Boomers, and Jason Riley's Maverick.

I sincerely hope you will come hear Victor Davis Hanson speak about his timely and important book at ISI’s Conservative Book of the Year Dinner on Friday, May 13th, in Wilmington, Delaware.

The Conservative Book of the Year Dinner will kick off ISI’s Homecoming Weekend. ISI alumni, faculty, and supporters like you will come together on ISI’s beautiful 20-acre campus for a weekend of fellowship and a renewal of their ISI intellectual experience.

I look forward to seeing you at the Conservative Book of the Year Dinner—and hopefully for the entirety of Homecoming Weekend.