Thinking Ourselves into Oblivion
Why We Think What We Think: The Rise and Fall of Western Thought By Dan LeRoy. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. “How did we get from a world in which some of the smartest people in recorded history were...
The “Christian Nationalism” Canard
Who’s Afraid of Christian Nationalism?: Why Christian Nationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church By Mark David Hall. Fidelis Books, 2024. Paperback, 222 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Thomas K. Sarrouf, Jr. Mark David Hall’s newest book, Who’s...
A Social Scientific Apologia for Marriage
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization By Brad Wilcox. Broadside Books, 2024. Hardcover, 320, $32. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. The University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox might be the world’s leading academic...
Genesis Through a Glass Darkly
Reading Genesis By Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.00. Reviewed by Richard Gunderman. In thin places, the distance between heaven and earth is narrowed, making it possible for human beings to feel the presence of the...
Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis By James Davison Hunter. Yale, 2024. Hardcover, 504 pages, $40. Reviewed by Brad Littlejohn. Being of a chronically pessimistic disposition, I used to enjoy picking out Despair.com posters...
The Life of Joseph Epstein
Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein. Free Press, 2024. Hardcover, 304 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Never? Maybe saying so really is OK, especially when you know that you had little to...
Order for a Disordered Time
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. If we go back fifty years to 1974, one might say it was annus horribilis for America. The US was in a grip of an energy crisis, the Presidency of Richard...
Kirk’s Constitution: From the Roots to the End of American Order?
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Let me begin with what may seem an odd claim: the American Constitution is a central concern of Russell Kirk’s vast body of work. This statement is...
Kirk’s American Founding Documents and the Unwritten Constitution
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Gary L. Gregg II. I doubt any readers of this essay came to it without knowing a good amount about the work and ideas of Russell Amos Kirk. If by chance such a...
Thinking Ourselves into Oblivion ----- @DWeinberger03 reviews Why We Think What We Think: The Rise and Fall of Western Thought by Dan LeRoy. @sophiapress
The “Christian Nationalism” Canard--@tomsarroufjr reviews "Why #ChristianNationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church" by @MDH_GFU.