We Still Need Family, Religion, and Tradition
Enemies of the Innocent: Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age By N. A. Haug. Academica Press, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book is at once terribly important and terribly frustrating. How could that possibly be, one justifiably...
The Woman Who Loved Lord Byron
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit By Antonia Fraser. Pegasus Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. “Lady Caroline Lamb broke the rules.” Who was Lady Caroline Lamb, the great rulebreaker, “free spirit,” and lady who nearly destroyed Lord...
Help Yourself
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up By Abigail Shrier. Sentinel, 2024. Hardcover, 320 pages, $30. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Abigail Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy has a simple thesis: children and teens get too much therapy and too much of that therapy is...
The “Art of Being” and “The Art of Becoming”
Some Permanent Things, Second Edition By James Matthew Wilson. Wiseblood Books, 2022. Paperback, 162 pages, $15. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. During an interview a few years back, James Matthew Wilson was asked what he meant by the “good,” a fitting question for...
Continuing in our celebration of the centenary of "Democracy and Leadership" by Irving Babbitt, reviewer Claes G. Ryn discusses the hostile reactions to Babbitt's views in his time.