Talking Race: Community Over Conflict
All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory By Edward Feser. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 163 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. In All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory, philosopher...
Sexuality and Gender: Returning to the Sources
Origen’s Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female By Brian Patrick Mitchell. Pickwick Publications, 2021. Hardcover, 280 pages, $49.00. Reviewed by Father Lawrence Farley. Once in a very long while one finds a volume that checks...
Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change
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 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...
Timely, for sure. Hope @realdonaldtrump is reading.