A Problem Deeper than Groupthink
Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment By Robert P. George. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 414 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by R. McKay Stangler. The first question, and perhaps the most pressing one when reviewing a book by Robert P....
Reconsidering Franklin D. Roosevelt
FDR: A New Political Life By David T. Beito. Open Universe, 2025. Paperback, 284 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Did the presidency of Herbert Hoover and the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt actually prolong what today might be remembered as the “panic of...
A Forgotten Russian Immigrant Poet in Hollywood
Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood By Alexander Voloshin. Translated by Boris Dralyuk. Paul Dry Books, 2026. Paperback, 98 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. When my oldest son was little, every Saturday morning I would bundle him into the car for the hour and a...
The Scientific Evidence for God
God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution By Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies. Palomar, 2025. Hardcover, 562 pages, $28.00. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. There has been a pendulum swing in the science world. The claims that most scientists are...
Help Me Read the Word
No More Boring Bible Study: Why Taking Scripture Seriously Is Easier and More Exciting Than You Think By Faith Womack. Zondervan Books, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $19.99. Reviewed by Xavier Serrani. The expansive scope, multiple genres, and occasional obscurity of...
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