Recovering the Person

Recovering the Person

The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self: Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood By Gil Bailie. Angelico Press, 2023. Paperback, 336 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. One question of the moment is whether the West can survive without Christianity as...
Contra Materialism and Gnosticism

Contra Materialism and Gnosticism

The Great Campaign Against The Great Reset By Jason Jones. Crisis Publications, 2024. Hardcover, 240 Pages, $21.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger.  It is well known that anxiety, depression, and suicide rates have exploded among adolescents in recent years. While...
Justice and Morality in Smithian Liberalism

Justice and Morality in Smithian Liberalism

Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism  By Daniel B. Klein. CL Press, 2023. Paperback, 338 pages, $14. Reviewed by Paul D. Mueller. Central Notions of Smithian Liberalism collects a series of academic articles and essays written by Daniel Klein and various co-authors....
More than Regime Change, We Need a New Cosmological Vision

Revolution and Counter Revolution

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future By Patrick J. Deneen. Sentinel, 2023. Hardcover, 288 pages, $30. Reviewed by John G. Grove.  It’s difficult to decide whether Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change is to be faulted for being too ambitious or not ambitious enough. ...
Liberalism in its Complexity

Liberalism in its Complexity

Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism By Alan S. Kahan. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 528 pages, $45. Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century By Joshua L. Cherniss. Princeton University Press, 2021....
Christians in the Brave New World

Christians in the Brave New World

Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture  By Aaron M. Renn. Zondervan, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by Jason Jewell. Since his viral article “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” was published in the February 2022...
Still Believing and Singing

Still Believing and Singing

I Still Believe: A Memoir By Jeremy Camp and David Thomas. Thomas Nelson, 2020. Paperback, 256 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Towards the end of the film I Still Believe, Jeremy Camp is distraught over the death of his wife, Melissa, whom he had hoped would...
Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair

Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair

Renewing America’s Civic Compact  Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2023. Hardcover, 258 pages, $100. Reviewed by Thomas Kelly. For many 2024 carries with it a very real sense of civic despair. There is of course the “dread” that many feel...
Citizenship Matters

Citizenship Matters

Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America  Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback, 326 pages, $42.99. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley have edited a wonderful collection of essays about topics related...