Fret Not By Michael Shindler. Finishing Line Press, 2024. Paperback, 40 pages, $17.99. Reviewed by Dan Rattelle. A first look at Fret Not quickly reveals that its author, Michael Shindler, does not have an MFA. Good. Absent is any sort of knowing irony in its deeply...
Exile’s Journey By Jeffrey Bilbro. Little Gidding Press, 2024. Paperback, 64 pages, $11. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. In my recent contemplations about literature, I have been struck by the mundanity and profundity that often simultaneously accompany the act of reading....
Future Shock By Alvin Toffler. Random House, 1970. Reviewed by John Rodden. More than seven years after the #MeToo movement exploded in October 2017 in the aftermath of public outrage over allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the...
The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage By Jonathan Turley. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan. Free speech lurks amid many of the controversies of the last several centuries. From Charles I’s infamous...
A Theology of Fiction By Cassandra Nelson. Wiseblood Books, 2025. Paperback, 116 pages, $10. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. A bit north and then west of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, one can stumble across an unincorporated community called...
The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings By Paul Kengor. TAN Books, 2024. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. The crucifixion of Christ is the central event in Christianity, for, as Saint Paul says in his letter to the...
Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. “We all come from divorce,” Wendell Berry once said, in an interview in Laura Dunn’s film The...
Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. In January 2022, Pope Francis struck a nerve during his Wednesday public audience. Noting...
The American Political Novel Dr. David Hein, Ph.D.Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center X Dates: July 24-27, 2025Faculty: Dr. David HeinLocation: The Russell Kirk Center Description:This is a new immersive seminar that explores the...
Russell Kirk and the Conservative Disposition (Section 2) Dr. Ryan Streeter, Ph.D.Executive Director of the Civitas Institute Dr. Lee Trepanier, Ph.D.Dean of D’Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Assumption University Date: July 22, 2025Faculty:...
Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America
The great @MootsGlenn on the great @IVMiles.
"Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War" @DavenantInst Press.
Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker
Adam Schwartz (@christendomva) reviews "The Worlds of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life and Works of the Crime Writer and Poet" by Stephen Wade. @penswordbooks