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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Deo Volente Labor Proficit
Would You Recognize a Dystopia If You Saw One?
Ryan J. Barilleaux helps us take a deeper look at our glib use of dystopian rhetoric.
Churchill as Communicator
Joseph Bottum and Benjamin F. Jones review a major new biography of Churchill.
Nation, State, Empire
Glenn A. Moots reviews Yoram Hazony’s valuable The Virtue of Nationalism.
Animating Our Souls
Titus Techera reviews a (nearly) comprehensive new book on the master animator Hayao Miyazaki.
Reclaiming a Place for Conversation
Anthony M. Barr reviews Senator Ben Sasse’s book on fault lines in American civil society.
On the Endlessness of the World Story
Father Schall considers beginnings and endings, names and times, in reflecting on a note from the end of Tolkien’s essay, “On Fairy-stories.”
Lingis Among the Nightingales
Michael Shindler reviews Alphonso Lingis’s quirky reflections on the process of dying.
An Unflinching Theological Aesthetic
Steven Knepper reviews a wide-ranging new book of poems from James Matthew Wilson.
A Hope Beyond Our Sight
Ben Reinhard reviews The Fall of Gondolin, the last Christopher Tolkien-edited edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Great Tales.
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