By Jacob Bruggeman The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere—in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. No one would desire not to be beautiful. When we experience the beautiful, there is...
The False Promise of Big Government: How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor by Patrick M. Garry. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2017. Paperback, 112 pages, $10. Reviewed by Jacob Bruggeman Published in 2017 by University of South Dakota professor Patrick...
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016. Hardcover, 360 pages, $15. Reviewed by Jacob Bruggeman Historians and science fiction writers, philosophers and some politicians, have for decades warned us of the...
A Scholar for all Seasons ----- Henry T. Edmondson III on "Flannery O’Connor and the Church Made Visible: A Revolutionary Witness for the Sake of the Gospel" by Ralph C. Wood. Baylor University Press.
The Formless Void of the Therapeutic
The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion, and the Self," Edited by William G. Batchelder, IV and Michael P. Harding. @BloomsburyPub @BloomsburyPhilo @ciceroniansoc
Reviewed by Albert Norton, Jr.
