The Crisis of Brotherhood and the Need for Heroic Fraternities
Heroic Fraternities: How College Men Can Save Universities and America By Anthony B. Bradley. Wipf and Stock, 2023. Paperback, 222 pages, $30. Reviewed by Jared Zimmerer. “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men....
St. Thomas Aquinas With a Southern Drawl
Understanding The Hillbilly Thomist: The Philosophical Foundations of Flannery O’Connor’s Narrative Art By Fr. Damian Ference. Word on Fire, 2023. Paperback, 280 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. By her own admission, Flannery O’Connor was...
The Novel: We Need It
The Novel: Who Needs It? By Joseph Epstein. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 152 pages, $25.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. There are few books of literary criticism in recent years that are clearly written, free of jargon, and not weighted down by one sort or another...
Good Economics on a Human Scale
The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good By Alexander William Salter. The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Paperback, 238 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Alexander Salter has written an important book,...
Romano Guardini: A Man of His Times, A Man for Our Own
The World and the Person: And Other Writings By Romano Guardini. Introduction by Robert Royal. Regnery Gateway Editions, 2023. Paperback, 688 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Rev. Joseph Scolaro. Countless books have been and will be written on the transformation of...
Troublesome Corporeality: Mysticism, Gnosticism, and Sacramentality in The Rabbit Hutch
The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel By Tess Gunty. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 352 pages, $28. Reviewed by Jeffrey Wald. Although I dislike identity politics, I must admit that when it comes to literature, I love to camp with my own tribe. In other words, I have a particular...
Reading Alone
After Pandemic, After Modernity: The Relational Revolution By Giulio Maspero. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022. Paperback, 90 pages, $12. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. With the COVID-19 pandemic behind us, what the world needs to heal itself is Trinitarian spirituality....
Learn to Read Early, Then Read to Learn for the Rest of Your Life
The Core Knowledge Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for Grades K-8 Core Knowledge Foundation. www.coreknowledge.org. By M.D. Aeschliman. The lack of effective early-literacy instruction in the USA and the West generally is the single most grievous problem that...
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Stephen B. Presser. Ideas, they...
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...