by Andrew Bacevich | Sep 9, 2013
Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century by Patrick Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. Hardcover, 231 pages, $27.50. This slender volume consists of four essays offering four variations on a single theme. Since “the American century is behind...
by David G. Bonagura, Jr. | Aug 18, 2013
C. S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath. Tyndale, 2013. Hardcover, 488 pages, $24. Fifty years after his death, the Irish born but British bred scholar, apologist, and novelist C. S. Lewis remains incredibly popular in America, where...
by JP O’Malley | Aug 4, 2013
A conversation with Michael J. Sandel.Michael J. Sandel is a political philosopher and a professor at Harvard University. He is best known for his “Justice” course, which he has taught for over two decades. Sandel first came to prominence in 1982 with his book...
by Chuck Chalberg | Jul 15, 2013
Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition by Jean M. Yarbrough. University of Kansas Press, 2012. Cloth, 337 pp., $40.Just what is the “American political tradition?” Better than sixty years ago the noted American historian, Richard Hofstadter, tried to...