The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity By Casey J. Chalk. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Tyler Curtis. In 1925, when John T. Scopes was on trial for teaching...
Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois By David Withun. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $80.00. Reviewed by Chris Butynskyi. Race, class, gender. These are three important components...
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds By Bryan Giemza. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 184 pages, $100. Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn. Works of scholarship on art, literature, or poetry can take multiple forms. One form might be scholarship...
A reflection on Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities By Igor Damous. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every...
Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister. Lexington Books, 2022. Hardcover, 208 pages, $95. Reviewed by Ryan R. Holston. Truth-telling with regard to historical life is never a question of laying bare “the...
Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory By Ryan R. Holston. State University of New York Press, 2023. Paperback, 218 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Political theorists have recently devoted a great amount of...
Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging By Dean Hammer. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 262 pages, $110.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Since its inception, America has been many things, but, in a certain sense, it has always...
April 1945: The Hinge of History Craig Shirley. Thomas Nelson Books, 2022. Hardcover, 528 pages, $31.99. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse Of The Third Reich By Volker Ullrich. Liveright, 2021. Hardcover, 336 pages, $28.95. Reviewed by Robert Huddleston. When the...
Philosophy: What Every Catholic Should Know By Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press, 2023. Paperback, 270 pages, $16.95 Reviewed by David Weinberger. In the latest of his more than 100 books, philosopher Peter Kreeft answers 72 pressing philosophical questions ranging from...
Mackinac Center Interns Focus on “The Politics of Prudence” The Kirk Center welcomed interns from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy for a seminar on specific dimensions of “The Politics of Prudence” this summer. Kirk Center trustee and director of Save...
Home, Sour Home---Daniel Fischer reviews "Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations" by @BenedictBeckeld Northern Illinois University Press
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/home-sour-home/
.@jp_omalley Interviews Author @FrankTallis on his recent book: "Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind" @stmartinspress
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/jp-omalley-interviews-author-frank-tallis/
