Saint Una and the Women Who Made Saint Augustine

Saint Una and the Women Who Made Saint Augustine

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions By Kate Cooper. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $30. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Saint Augustine was a momma’s boy. He was also smitten by the beauty and charm of women, from the concubine with...
The U.S. Constitution and Slavery 

The U.S. Constitution and Slavery 

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding  By Simon Gilhooley. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Paperback, 283 pages, $29.99. Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness...
Draining the Swamp

Draining the Swamp

You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State  By David Bernhardt.  Encounter Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. In recent years the term “administrative state” has become part of our common parlance. The...
After Liberalism…Faith?

After Liberalism…Faith?

The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism By John Gray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 192 pages, $27. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Reviewing one of John Gray’s recent books is an adventurous undertaking. Rather than straightforward histories, or...
The Romance of Journalism in the American Century 

The Romance of Journalism in the American Century 

The Noise Of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism By Lance Morrow. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 200 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Alexander J. Fezza.  It is easier to describe The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow by what it is not rather than what it is.  This...
A Wild Ride Characterized by Potholes

A Wild Ride Characterized by Potholes

Jesus in the Minnows: A Catholic Beat Memoir By David Craig. Angelico Press, 2023. Paperback, 216 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Alex Taylor. There are two types of people in the world. Those who like the Beat poets and those…well. Beat poet turned monastic Thomas...