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Reading Alone
“[Maspero’s] book, complete with close readings of scripture and heavy helpings of theological and sociological insight, dives deep into the mystery of what it means to be human and how to heal after a trauma like lockdowns.”
Learn to Read Early, Then Read to Learn for the Rest of Your Life
“It is to the immense credit of E. D. Hirsch, Jr., and his colleagues and allies in hundreds of schools and communities, that a real, practicable, early-schooling program exists that may be the saving remnant in our otherwise-demoralizing cultural circumstances.”
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law
“[Cooper and Dyer] argue convincingly that… the law of God as understood by Aquinas ought to inform our understanding of the Constitutional order, if we are to be true to our tradition.”
The Christian and Classical Roots of American Order
“When claiming the heritage of the traditional rights of Englishmen, Americans were not claiming mere privileges of political or national affiliation, but natural rights born of moral constraints upon the powers of the sovereign…”
Recovering the Founders’ Constitutional Order
“The founders, in their affirmation of the rule of law and the principle of consent, resoundingly rejected modernity’s embrace of unlimited and largely arbitrary state power. Such a rejection depends ultimately on man being made in the image and likeness of the Christian creator God…”
In the Details There Is No Devil
“…the book offers other important lines of evidence for gospel reliability, as well as a look at how early Christians discerned the meaning of what Jesus taught.”
Natural Law in the Protestant Tradition
“Jensen’s recent book… makes an important contribution to the aforementioned Aufklärung of Protestant natural law, particularly for the way in which it situates the Wittenberg reformer’s various statements about natural law in historical and polemical context rather than painting a picture of… seamless development…”
Identity Politics as Ersatz Religion
“As Mitchell sees it, there is only one path back from the ‘debilitating pathology’ of identity politics. It is for a community of thoughtful individuals to build, or rebuild, a society of honest ‘face-to-face’ relationships and a ‘politics of competence,’ and thereby restore a society in which individuals are judged on virtue, merit, and conduct rather than affiliation with one or more distinct identity groups.”
From The Quest for Community to the Restoration of Authority
“This is the great task of contemporary politics for Nisbet and for us: combining civic and social harmony with a political unity that respects pluralism as such.”
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This is good. I’d like to see a follow up piece on Wood’s The American Revolution and on Power & Liberty. Also, maybe some comment on the essay in The Idea of America that walks back the claim in Creation that 1789 marked the end of classical
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“Anton’s book, and his entire worldview, stand as direct challenges to elite preferences and institutions: Okay, boomer, what next?”
Quite the review of Michael Anton's book from Brad Watson in @KirkCenter's @ubookman. https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/a-man-for-all-seasons/
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