Institutionally Preaching the Gospel: The Right Words Are Necessary
Religious Freedom After the Sexual Revolution by Helen M. Alvaré. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 256 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Jennie Bradley Lichter. The core conviction and the raison d’être of Helen Alvaré’s excellent book is that...
Choosing a Currency
Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin? by Lawrence H. White. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Paperback, 185 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by David Weinberger. If the last couple years have taught us anything about inflation, it is that the value of our money can rapidly...
“To Help Man Endure by Lifting His Heart”: Earl Hamner at 100
By James E. Person Jr. “My grandfather used to say that nobody owns a mountain, but getting born and living and dying in its shadow, we loved Waltons’ Mountain and felt it was ours.” Spoken in the gentle, Southern/Scotch-Irish accent typical of rural Virginia, those...
The Women of the Bible Speak Again
The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families By Shannon Bream. Broadside Books, 2022. Hardcover, 288 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak: Lessons on Faith from...
Inside the Split Mind of George Kennan
Kennan: A Life Between Worlds By Frank Costigliola. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 648 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg. Biographies of George Frost Kennan can have tales of their own. Or so concludes Kennan’s most recent biographer,...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."