The Work of Local Culture
Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul by Ted V. McAllister and Bruce P. Frohnen Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 164+xxiv pages, $24. Reviewed by Richard M. Gamble In 1954, Russell Kirk, fresh on the heels of his Conservative Mind, published A Program...
From the Ground Up
American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation by Timothy S. Goeglein and Craig Osten. Regnery Gateway, 2019. Hardcover, 256 pages. $29. Reviewed by Timothy D. Lusch It is obvious that America, as elsewhere, is in uncharted...
Letting Writers Do the Talking
Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen Mendenhall edited by Allen Mendenhall. Red Dirt Press, 2019. Paperback, 230 pages. $16.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner Writers on Writing is a superb collection of interviews conducted by Allen Mendenhall with established...
‘All of time is cut in two’
And After All by Rhina P. Espaillat. Able Muse Press, 2019. Paperback, 130 pages, $20. Reviewed by Midge Goldberg “Without you,” Rhina Espaillat says, “all of time is cut in two.” The best poems in Espaillat’s new book, And After All, are about grief. Espaillat lost...
Liberalism in its Complexity---@PhilipDBunn reviews "Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism" by Alan S. Kahan and "Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century" by Joshua L. Cherniss. Both @PrincetonUPress
Christians in the Brave New World---Jason Jewell reviews @aaron_renn's LIFE IN THE NEGATIVE WORLD @Zondervan @firstthingsmag.