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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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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.”
When Rulers Look in the Mirror
“McCormick succeeds in providing an informative, insightful, and clear examination of Aquinas’s political thought.”
The Achievement of the Irish Poets
“…for Devlin, as for MacGreevy and Coffey, the purpose of art, including that of literary expression, was to call forth wonder, beauty, goodness, and truth, which required drawing from the rich stores of both philosophy and faith.”
The Last European
“[The book] is a fascinating portrait of the collapse of the glorious cultural world of the first half of the 20th century, one that has much relevance to what is happening to the culture of the West today.”
A “Sputnik Moment” for Civics
“The key to effective civics is for teachers to engage students in ‘conversations based on primary sources.’ Immersion in such conversations, the authors contend, ‘makes us feel part of the story, making it ours too.'”
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