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Defending the Christian Faith

“In 100 Tough Questions For Catholics: Common Obstacles To Faith Today… David G. Bonagura, Jr. gives bite-sized answers to dozens of big questions about the faith.”

Protestant Institutionalism and Christian America

“…Smith provides a thematic overview of the period between 1800 and 1860. His book is somewhat unique in that whereas many debates concern the religious character of the Founding or the Founders, Smith is concerned with the period afterwards.”

Reviving the Vanished Voice of a Maker

“Dorothy L. Sayers was the premiere female Christian intellectual of twentieth-century Britain, whose foremost accomplishments include being a pioneering detective novelist and religious dramatist, a daring translator of Dante, and a trenchant social critic who advanced a sacramental notion of work against technocratic utilitarianism.”

A Scholar for all Seasons

“With this kind of project, the challenge for the author is to craft a thesis that justifies the collection of essays and brings unity to the collection. Wood has done so as well as anyone might. The thesis of the book makes a statement about the Christian church in America.”

A Conservative Manifesto for Europe

A Conservative Manifesto for Europe

Zeitgeist & Headwinds: A Conservative Manifesto [Original German: Zeitgeist und Gegenwind—Ein konservatives Manifest] by Florian Stumfall. Hemau, Germany: Tangrintler Medienhaus, 2011. Hardcover, 243 pages, €25.Florian Stumfall is a seasoned Christian German...

On Cocktail Time

In 1958, P. G. Wodehouse published Cocktail Time, one of his “Uncle Fred books.” Bertram Wilberforce Wooster does not appear in this book, nor does Jeeves, but Bertie’s friend “Pongo” Twistleton does, as well as a butler by the name of Albert Peasemarch. Pongo’s Uncle...

Unequal Victors

JP O’Malley interviews Michael Neiberg about his new book on the 1945 Potsdam Conference that helped shape the postwar world.

Why Secular Liberalism Isn’t Liberal

John Gray, René Girard, and the return of tribal religionI stuck around St. Petersburg When I saw it was a time for a change Killed the czar and his ministers Anastasia screamed in vain … Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name, oh yeah Ah, what’s puzzling you Is...

L’Engle’s Conservatism

A newly discovered section of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic A Wrinkle in Time (1963), which was excised before the book’s publication, makes clear the author’s classically conservative vision of political and social order. The passages have to do with the origins of...

A Lively Half-Life

The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams by Phyllis Lee Levin. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Hardcover, 544 pages, $35. “This, in essence, is the dilemma of John Quincy’s life. Respecting him as a statesman, as ‘Old Man Eloquent’ was one thing. Liking him was...

Catholic Principles, American Law

American Law from a Catholic Perspective: Through a Clearer Lens Edited by Ronard J. Rychlak. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. Hardcover, 326 pages, $85. The contributors to American Law from a Catholic Perspective are well acquainted with the nuance and...

ISI video draws on Kirk’s thought

The Intercollegiate Review has published a short video with Robert Reilly that was shot at Mecosta last summer. In it, Bob Reilly draws on Russell Kirk’s The Roots of American Order to explain why “America is older than you think.” The video is just two minutes long,...

Five Girls, Two Nations, One Historical Imagination

Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura. W. W. Norton, 2015. Hardcover, 352 pages, $28.Two days before Christmas, 1871, a delegation of Japanese pioneers left the port of Yokohama on the paddlewheel steamship SS America,...

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A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.

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

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