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Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change

by James E. Person Jr | Sep 11, 2022

Coffeehouse Culture in the Atlantic World, 1650-1789 by E. Wesley Reynolds III. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Cloth, 264 pages, $115.00. Reviewed by James E. Person Jr. Near the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson famously referred to coffee as “the favorite drink of the...

Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience

by Ben Peterson | Sep 4, 2022

By Ben Peterson At least since Sophocles’ dramatic telling of the bitter conflict between Antigone and Creon over the burial of Antigone’s traitorous brother, the tension between higher law and the benefits of a public order that promotes law abidingness has been...

Found in Translation: Capturing the Sublime with Ryan Wilson

by Patrick Callahan | Sep 4, 2022

Proteus Bound: Selected Translations, 2008-2020 By Ryan Wilson. Franciscan University Press, 2021. Paper, 224 pages, $15.00. Reviewed by Patrick Callahan. Ryan Wilson’s new collection of verse translations, Proteus Bound, dazzles when you try to grasp it. The whole...

Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change

Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience

Found in Translation: Capturing the Sublime with Ryan Wilson

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