Philosophy and the Meaningful Life
Philosophy: What Every Catholic Should Know By Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press, 2023. Paperback, 270 pages, $16.95 Reviewed by David Weinberger. In the latest of his more than 100 books, philosopher Peter Kreeft answers 72 pressing philosophical questions ranging from...
Why Beauty Matters
The Wounds of Beauty By Margarita Mooney Suarez. Cluny Media, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner. What is beauty and why is it so important, particularly in the realm of art and education? Margarita Mooney Suarez delves into this...
Christian Freedom and the Western Political Tradition
Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition By D. C. Schindler. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 550 Pages, $60. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Around 2014, pundits and Washington, D.C.-based journalists announced the arrival...
The Spiritualist Origins of Modern Disorder
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898 By Dominic Green. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chilton Williamson, Jr. “We live,” Flannery O’Connor wrote in 1963, “in an unbelieving age but one which is...
Politics Awaiting the City of God: James Schall, S.J. on The Nature of Political Philosophy
The Nature of Political Philosophy and other Studies and Commentaries By James V. Schall, S.J. Edited by William McCormick. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 240 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Beer. Fr. James Schall, S.J. (1928-2019) was a...
Why is free speech an indispensable right?
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