Thinking as a Human Being

Thinking as a Human Being

by | Feb 25, 2024

Thinking about Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism James D. Madden. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 220 pages, $29. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what it means to have a mind? Is thinking, for example, unique to the human species? Or...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Ian Buruma

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Ian Buruma

by | Feb 25, 2024

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II By Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $30. Ian Buruma published The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II early last year. The University...
Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps

Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps

by | Feb 25, 2024

Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders By Michael Barone.  Encounter Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 228 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Christian Sellar. This book is the fruit of the labor of a journalist and political...
Imprisoned by the Internet

Imprisoned by the Internet

by | Feb 18, 2024

Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age By Samuel D. James. Crossway, 2023. Paperback, 208 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Historian Oswald Spengler famously argued that man, at least since the Dark Ages, has been animated by a...
An Unsettling Sense of Justice

An Unsettling Sense of Justice

by | Feb 18, 2024

A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall.  Livingston Press, 2023.  Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...