Halting the Assembly Line Life
Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity By Nadya Williams. IVP Academic, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $26. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. On the walls of the birth center sit posters about birth control. In the office...
Looking at U.S. Trade Policy Through a Historical Lens
Clashing Over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy By Douglas A. Irwin. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Hardcover, 832 pages, $38. Reviewed by Frank Filocomo. The Trump years have thrust trade policy back into the national conversation for the first time since...
The Mystery of Imitation
All Desire is a Desire for Being By René Girard, Edited and Introduced by Cynthia L. Haven. Penguin Classics, 2024. Paperback, 336 pages, $18. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison. In All Desire is a Desire for Being, Cynthia L. Haven has produced the first edited volume of...
An Italian Apologia for the American Electoral System
Come si USA. Guida (e curiosità) per l’elezione del presidente americano By Marco Respinti. D’Ettoris editore, 2024. Paperback, 100 pages, 12,40€. Reviewed by Carolina Riva Posse. Emilio Komar was a Slovenian-Argentinian philosopher, an immigrant, and an heir...
The Centrality of Civic Virtue
The Roots of Liberalism: What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civic Virtue By F. H. Buckley. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 296 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by David Hein. In his latest book, F. H. Buckley, a professor at George Mason...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.