A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

Dispatches from the Late Republic: The Culture, Politics, and Prophets of American Greatness, Decline, and Rebirth By Michael Anton. Encounter Books, 2026. Hardcover, 408 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Bradley C. S. Watson. Michael Anton burst onto the national political...
Finding Faith in Fiction

Finding Faith in Fiction

Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children’s Literature By LuElla D’Amico. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 162 pages, $23. Reviewed by Christine Norvell. A Presbyterian minister told me that many of the young parents in her inner city church...
The Liturgical Key to Tolkien

The Liturgical Key to Tolkien

The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination By Ben Reinhard. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2025. Hardcover, 184 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Benjamin J. Volpe. “My living room bookcase has an entire shelf filled with Tolkien’s works and works commenting on Tolkien’s...
To Find Eyes to See

To Find Eyes to See

More Than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature By Joshua Hren. Word on Fire Luminor, 2026. Paperback, 392 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. The year after Euripides died (406 BC), Athenian theater-goers who flocked to see...
Rural America as It Really Is

Rural America as It Really Is

Faith, Family, and Flag: Branson Entertainment and the Idea of America  By Joanna Dee Das. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Hardcover, 272 pages, $27.50. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Over the last eighteen months, I have twice visited Branson, Missouri. Over the...
The Poet Watches Birds

The Poet Watches Birds

Instructions for Waking By Jennifer A. Hartenburg. Kelsay Books, 2026. Paperback, 70 pages, $20. Reviewed by Matt Miller. I’m not much of a birdwatcher. We keep a few feeders, and I’m always pleased to spot a bald eagle, a pileated woodpecker, or a Baltimore oriole....
Russell Kirk on America

Russell Kirk on America

Russell Kirk on America Meet the Instructors:Aaron Zubia is Assistant Professor in the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. Previously, Zubia was a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Tocqueville Program in the Department of Politics...
Continually Revising History

Continually Revising History

  The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age. Eric Voegelin Studies Yearbook 4. Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer. Brill Fink, 2025. Hardcover, 473 pages, $155. Reviewed by Lee...
G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth

G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth

Chesterton and the Philosophers Edited by Landon Loftin. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2026.  Paperback, 222 pages, $28.00 Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg.  Editor Landon Loftin has the temerity to agree and then disagree with Garry Wills, who had the temerity to declare that...