Suicide Narratives and the Goodness of Being

Suicide Narratives and the Goodness of Being

Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett.  Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
Imprisoned by the Internet

Imprisoned by the Internet

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...
Reclaiming Protestantism At Its Best

Reclaiming Protestantism At Its Best

Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction Edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich. The Davenant Press, 2022. Paperback, 270 pages, $26.95. Review by John Ehrett. A popular shibboleth of traditionalist history writing is the notion of a direct line...
Politics Between History and Eternity

Politics Between History and Eternity

Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall. Harvard University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 352 pages, $49.95. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Sarah Shortall’s Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology...
Geopolitics in a Godless Age

Geopolitics in a Godless Age

Political Theology of International Order by William Bain. Oxford University Press, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $85. Reviewed by John Ehrett Few academic fields today feel more unabashedly secular than international relations. Traditionally, the major division in the...