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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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The Left Wing Patriot
“A man of the left and an American patriot, [Peretz] is a rare bird today—and, therefore, possibly even a controversial one, not to mention an iconoclastic one.”
Will You Also Go Away?
“The suggestions that these True Confessions pose for renewal are aligned, whether they come from bishops or laypeople: we must recover the view that the Church is not an institution but a community founded on encountering Jesus Christ and living radically for him.”
Sailing East
“As we push deeper into the third decade of the twenty-first century, the sense of boredom and anxiety of the early twenty-first century only seems to increase. What is needed is a renewed sense of adventure, confidence, and patriotism—the same sense of adventure, confidence, and patriotism that propelled the East India Company to create the wealth and wonder of the modern world.”
The Republic and the American Right
“…Kevin Slack traces our continuing national horror back to its roots, America’s roots, in his scathing new book… Slack dedicates his screed to patriotic Americans ‘disgusted by our rotting plutocracy…'”
Evil and Good in Cormac McCarthy
“Vereen M. Bell’s primary contention is that McCarthy presents us with a dead end—confronting us, in a kind of stoical existentialism, with the universality of death and non-being.”
Under the Light of the Same Communion Candle: From Russell Kirk to James Matthew Wilson
“One might think of matters this way: Eliot appropriates Arnold’s liberal vision of culture, but conservatively converts that vision. Culture’s work is not merely sweetness and light but contributes to an ‘ideal order’ of tradition which is above if not sealed off from the ‘poet’s heart’ that is supposed to palpate with feeling.”
TIME Marches On… Past 100
“As TIME ‘goes on,’ therefore, and we commemorate its achievements, the career of Henry Robinson Luce, the ‘Man of TIME’s Century,’ deserves recognition.”
The Missing Virtue
“In [the book], the virtue of humility is presented as the antithesis of, and thus an antidote to, the narcissism that can adversely affect interpersonal dynamics…”
Remaking Cold War Diplomacy
“[Eames’s] latest book… takes a transnational approach to the nuclear 1980s by examining the strategic coordination of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher during the waning days of the Cold War.”
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