Dissonance and Faith
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The Political Writings of George Washington, two volumes. Edited by Carson Holloway and Bradford. P. Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardcover, $300.00. Reviewed by Michael P. Federici. Carson Holloway and Bradford P. Wilson are engaged in a project with...Hope in the Past, Hope in the Future
Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church By Stephen O. Presley. Eerdmans, 2024. Paperback, 230 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Winston Hottman. What should be done about the decline of Christianity in the West? While some proposed solutions have...The Sacredness of Life: An Unbought Grace
The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors By Noreen Johnson, M.D., and Haywood Robinson, M.D. Kolbe & Anthony, 2023. Hardcover, 216 pages, $24.95. Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine...The Social Gospel for Our Times
The End of Civility: Christ and Prophetic Division By Ryan Andrew Newson. Baylor University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 248 pages, $54.99. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In the past few years, there has been a growing number of commentators decrying the lack of civility in...Political Exodus in America
American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 232 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. American Refugees is a worthwhile and highly readable account of an important...Announcing the Inaugural Richard D. McLellan Prizes Award Gala
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The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 By Jon K. Lauck. University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Paperback, 366 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. Historians have a complicated job. Their ultimate aim should be to use the available...Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution
American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin. Basic Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Something has gone wrong with America. Even among the politically disengaged, one can detect a...
Editor, @lsheahan, on the @lawliberty podcast with @JohnGGrove1 discussing new edition of Robert Nisbet's classic, The Social Philosophers. @AmPhilSociety Press.
Me, on a new edition of ROBERT NISBET's THE SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS, out with @AmPhilSociety Press, on the @lawliberty Podcast with @JohnGGrove1.
I enjoyed the opportunity to interview @lsheahan for the @LawLiberty Podcast on the new edition of Robert Nisbet's The Social Philosophers. Give it a listen and subscribe at Apple/Spotify etc...