Psalms for Heaven, Earth, and Everywhere In Between
Christian Poetry In America Since 1940: An Anthology Edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas. Iron Pen/Paraclete Press, 2022. Paperback, 208 pages, $25. Reviewed by Steven Knepper. Christian Poetry In America Since 1940 begins with a proclamation: “There has been a...
In Defense of Maintenance
The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work that Matters Most By Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell. Currency, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Sam Smith, the former president of Washington State University...
Marginal No More: Willmoore Kendall as Essential Conservative
Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall By Christopher Owen. Lexington Books, 2021. Hardcover, 256 pages, $105. Reviewed by Jason Ross. As the conservative movement is crumbling, many outside of that movement’s mainstream are tracing their way back to...
In Defense of Divine Justice
Is God a Vindictive Bully? Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments By Paul Copan. Baker Academic, 2022. Paperback, 320 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Recently, while I was reading Paul Copan’s Is God a Vindictive Bully? and...
Sowing Seeds in Useless Fields
The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students And What to Do About It by John Agresto. Encounter Books, 2022. Paperback, 272 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Successful interventions begin by telling the truth. The intervenor...
The book’s defense of McCarthyism also fares even better over half a century after its publication, as the opening of the Soviet archives gave Americans far more information than the authors had in 1954 and made abundantly clear not only the reality of Soviet infiltration of the…
Today, we know so much more about the communist infiltration of our government and society in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than William F. Buckley, Jr. did in his early career. Yet, it turns out that Buckley and his allies were closer to the truth about domestic communism than their…