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The Character of the People is the Character of the Regime
“To see why ‘realism’ is inadequate as a paradigm, Rahe seeks to rehabilitate the old idea of grand strategy as crucial for the competent study of international affairs.”
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.”
Poet on a Volcano
Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard. Yale University Press, 2025. Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. nce upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with...
Alasdair Macintyre: Philosopher of the Ages
Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md.) 208 pp., $33.00 cloth, 2005 The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Vol. 1 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U.K.) 244 pp., $70.00 cloth, 2006 Ethics and Politics: Selected...
The Winding Road that Alasdair MacIntyre Has Traveled
“Perreau-Saussine… makes a valuable contribution for those looking to understand the context and nature of Alasdair MacIntyre’s thought.”
Reforming Education Begins (and ends) with the Virtues
Teaching the Virtues By David Hein. Mecosta House, 2025. Paperback, 222 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. ristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further...
Irretrievable Eden
Outside The Gates of Eden By David Middleton. Measure Press, 2023. Hardcover, 114 pages, $25. Reviewed by Madeleine Austin. avid Middleton’s Outside the Gates of Eden is a collection of formal poems rooted in contemplation of the Book of Genesis....
Renewing Our Understanding of True Freedom
Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License By Brad Littlejohn. B&H Academic, 2025. Paperback, 192 pages, $22.99. Reviewed by Andrew Fowler. reedom could be Modernity’s most overused yet least understood word. In an...
Abolitionism’s George Washington
The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism’s Essential Founding Father By Caleb Franz. Post Hill Press, 2024. Paperback, 336 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Peter Biles. he past is like a waterfall, and history is like the glass of water...
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