C. S. Lewis’s Indispensable Guide
After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. by Michael Ward. Word on Fire Academic, 2021. Hardcover, 253 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Chris Butynskyi Accessibility is a hallmark of the works of C. S. Lewis, and an element that made him one...
Properly Dangerous Ideas
Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction by Chuck Klosterman. Penguin Press, 2019. Hardcover, 320 pages, $26.00 Chris Butynskyi Ideas are dangerous. Most people would agree that a certain level of danger and harm can take root in ideas. Culture, too, is dangerous....
Humanism, Reform, Heresy
Calvin’s Tormentors: Understanding the Conflicts That Shaped the Reformer by Gary W. Jenkins. Baker Academic, 2018. Paperback, 208 pages, $28. Reviewed by Chris Butynskyi In the wake of the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, Christians are...An Iron Lady Recast
Margaret Thatcher: Shaping the New Conservatism by Meredith Veldman. Oxford University Press, 2016. Paperback, 232 pages, $16.95. CHRIS BUTYNSKYI The clock is counting down in England. Brexit (the exit of Britain from the European Union) is set to officially begin at...
Why is free speech an indispensable right?
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