The Cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, hurls boulders at Odysseus's ship in a scene from Homer's Odyssey, after a 19th-century work by Louis-Frédéric Schützenberger.(Ken Welsh/Design Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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For this year’s historic celebration of American nationhood, the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin has brought its own fireworks. The Civitas Collection 250 (Civitas Press, 214 pp., $30), edited by Richard M. Reinsch II, comprises 25 brisk essays on American history and political thought by such authors as C. Bradley Thompson (America’s Revolutionary Mind), Wilfred McClay (Land of Hope), Samuel Gregg (The Essential Natural Law), and John Yoo (The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Supreme Court). A pyrotechnic show of scholarship.

The collection compresses the density of several textbooks -- some entries’ endnotes could serve as indices ...

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