Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation By Andrew Frisardi. Angelico Press, 2020. Paperback, 272 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Ethan McGuire. Dante Alighieri, the Supreme Poet, was an intellectual and a member of the elite of his time, albeit not always in...
by Eugene Schlanger We begin again to recall the dead. Poets and lyricists often attempt To reimagine their companions and friends. And then, along comes a younger death That upsets the usual complacency. At our luncheons all things seemed possible, As...
The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen Translated by Gillian Clarke. Faber & Faber, 2021. Hardcover, 144 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David J. Davis. At the end of the sixth century, a Celtic British tribe known as the Gododdin met an army of invading Angles at the...
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China By William C. Kirby. Harvard University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 504 pages, $37.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In September U.S. News & World Report released its much-resented but...
Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for ALL Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their Pathway to Power By Ian V. Rowe. Templeton Press, 2022. Hardcover, 304 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Rachel Ferguson. The debate over moral agency—whether it...
Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph By Lucasta Miller. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 368 pages, $32.50. Reviewed by Paul Krause. John Keats wrote to his brother on October 14, 1818, “I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.” Those prophetic...
I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance Tony Woodlief. Encounter Books, 2021. Hardcover, 264 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. There is much talk among progressives about being a good “global citizen.” By this, they...
Godsends: From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation By William Desmond. University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Hardcover, 326 pages, $65.00. Reviewed by Rev. Joseph Scolaro. Metaxu is likely not a word in the lexicon of many seasoned philosophers, let alone in...
By Francis P. Sempa. In his 1948 masterpiece Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver assessed the cultural decline afflicting the West caused by the elite abandonment of the Judeo-Christian heritage. In the book’s introduction, Weaver wrote that his book was about...
Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry By Robert Kanigel. Knopf, 2021. Hardcover, 336 pages, $28.95. Reviewed by J. L. Wall. It can be difficult to escape the image of Homer as blind bard and near-inventor of human literature. Just glance at...
Personalism in the Age of AI Grant R. Martsolf on "Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh" Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko.
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