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Reviewing Books that Build Culture

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.”

Limits and the Good Life

“…David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of ‘recognizing proper limits in human life.’ He focuses on the ‘limiting virtues’ of ‘humility, reverence, moderation, contentment, neighborliness, and loyalty.’”

We’re All Epicureans Now

“…as Zubia argues convincingly, Hume’s political vision is not entirely modern but resurrects and reinforces ideas native to the ancient Epicurean framework of empirical skepticism. Hume’s vision of politics, mankind, and truth itself was deeply shaped by Epicureanism, which has, in turn, shaped the modern imagination.”

The Rise of the World Builders

“Maçães’s literal interpretation proposes that the ‘geo’ in ‘geopolitics’ takes on new, technological, meaning, insofar as the earth alone is no longer the surface or space of kinetic encounter; rather, ‘this new battlefield is synthetic or virtual’—comprising the realms of technology, energy, trade, and finance—and ‘the way to win is to reprogram the system, to step outside the game world.'”

Narrating the Future

Narrating the Future

Carl Lawrence Paulus reviews a history of the national grand narratives during a period of great change, the years leading up to the Civil War.

Two Tolkiens on View

Two Tolkiens on View

Alexi Sargeant reviews the exhibit Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth, now at the Morgan Library in New York through May.

Why Make Men Pigs

Why Make Men Pigs

Colleen Curran reviews Madeline Miller’s move from myth to novel as she works with a character from the Odyssey.

The Book Gallery

A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.

The Rise of the World Builders. @TMShelley on "World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics" by @MacaesBruno. @CambridgeUP

Principle and Pragmatism in Law---Cary Federman on @AlanDersh's "The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties" @EncounterBooks

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