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Christian Freedom and the Western Political Tradition
“For Schindler, there is no tradition without freedom, and no freedom without tradition. These ideas are a precious heritage to be guarded with great care, because they are a gift of the wise born before the present and the God who inspired their wisdom.”
The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder
“…the dominant characteristic of the new spirituality was the inflation, as egregious as it was absurd, of thought, of language, and of self: every man (or woman) a prophet, every man his own priest, every man a genius, each dedicated to what Dominic Green calls ‘the aristocrat within.’”
Politics Awaiting the City of God: James Schall, S.J. on The Nature of Political Philosophy
“This volume collects essays where Schall has reflected on questions of political philosophy that were at the very heart of his vocation as a Catholic teacher.”
A Time for Restoration
“…Manent and Scruton offer affirmation that the Good is supported in the nature of things, that human beings are capable of cultivating and acting according to political reason, and that the integrity of a national community is requisite for virtue and liberty.”
Reading as a Spiritual Practice
“…Wilson declares, ‘there is a different way of reading for Christians than for others.’ Her subtitle is meant quite literally: ‘reading is a spiritual discipline akin to fasting and prayer.'”
U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer
“Lighthizer… must be credited with disrupting nearly 80 years of establishment orthodoxy on trade.”
Making Sense of Libertarianism
“Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi… have written an excellent, and perhaps the definitive, book on the history of libertarianism… This is a serious work of intellectual history…”
Constantine versus the U.S. Constitution
“Gutacker… defends a straightforward thesis: early American political contests were deeply informed by appeals to history.”
Paths of Protestant Social Thought
“The example set here calls us not only to begin with Scripture, but to always read it in conversation with millennia of Church history and thinking.”
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"No one...takes poetic hairpin turns at speed like Majmudar does. His poems are full of sonic swerves and surprises..."
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