Learn to Read Early, Then Read to Learn for the Rest of Your Life
The Core Knowledge Sequence: Content and Skill Guidelines for Grades K-8 Core Knowledge Foundation. www.coreknowledge.org. By M.D. Aeschliman. The lack of effective early-literacy instruction in the USA and the West generally is the single most grievous problem that...
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Stephen B. Presser. Ideas, they...
The Christian and Classical Roots of American Order
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan. Nearly a half...
Recovering the Founders’ Constitutional Order
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Bradley C. S. Watson. The...
In the Details There Is No Devil
The Gospel Truth: How We Can Know What Christ Taught By Gary Michuta. Emmaus Road Publishing, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Unlike every other religion, Christianity stakes its entire claim to legitimacy on whether certain...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of