The Achievement of the Irish Poets
Catholic Modernism and the Irish “Avant-Garde”: The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas MacGreevy By James Matthew Wilson. Catholic University of America Press, 2024. Paperback, 488 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Although...
The Last European
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European By Stefan Zweig. Viking Press, 1943 (English Translation). Reviewed by John P. Rossi. On February 23, 1942, while Axis forces were triumphing everywhere—the Japanese overrunning the Philippines, the British withdrawing...
A “Sputnik Moment” for Civics
A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America’s Civic Education Crisis By Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Davenport. Republic Book Publishers, 2024. Hardcover, 250 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Last year’s dismal eighth grade scores on the history and civics exams...
Editors’ Summer Reading
Summer is well underway. So is our summer reading. Speaking of which—what are we reading? Luke C. Sheahan, Editor I like to divide my summer reading between works of imagination, those for sharpening the saw, and ones read for professional reasons, either scholarly...
The Dublin Fog: In the Footsteps of the Irish Saints
St. Patrick and His World By Mike Aquilina. Scepter, 2024. Paperback, 144 pages, $15.95. Monastery and High Cross: The Forgotten Eastern Roots of Irish Christianity By Connie Marshner. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Ryan...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!