Reading Alone

Reading Alone

After Pandemic, After Modernity: The Relational Revolution  By Giulio Maspero. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 90 pages, $12. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, what the world needs to heal itself is Trinitarian spirituality....
Oh Yeah Baby Eat It

Oh Yeah Baby Eat It

Spending the Winter  By Joseph Bottum. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 80 pages, $13. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. “Do I really want to read this?” “Is this a good way to spend my time?” These are fair questions to ask yourself whenever thinking about...
Sowing Seeds in Useless Fields

Sowing Seeds in Useless Fields

The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students And What to Do About It  by John Agresto. Encounter Books, 2022. Paperback, 272 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Successful interventions begin by telling the truth. The intervenor...
Whose Truth? Whose Power? 

Whose Truth? Whose Power? 

Slave State: Rereading Orwell’s 1984  by David Lowenthal. St. Augustine’s Press, 2021. Paperback, 100 pages, $14. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. It is impossible to mention George Orwell’s name, let alone write about him (i.e., such and such is “Orwellian”), without...
Laugh, It’ll Be Alright

Laugh, It’ll Be Alright

How to Destroy Western Civilization and Other Ideas from The Cultural Abyss by Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press, 2021. Paperback, 182 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. One caricature of a conservative is a man (always old, always white) shouting at clouds....