History of the American Revolution Well Told

History of the American Revolution Well Told

The Diplomacy of the American Revolution By Samuel Flagg Bemis. Introduction by Ben Judge.  Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Kevin R. C. Gutzman. Samuel Flagg Bemis was a master of American diplomatic history, a field that has now...
Virtue in the Age of Neo-Machiavellianism

Virtue in the Age of Neo-Machiavellianism

Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena By James Hankins.  Harvard University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 448 pages, $55. Reviewed by Jesse Russell.  We live in a Neo-Machiavellian age. Gone are the “End of History”...
Crafting a New Evangelical Imagination

Crafting a New Evangelical Imagination

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis By Karen Swallow Prior. Brazos Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $26.99. Reviewed by James E. Hartley. “All great systems, ethical or political, attain their ascendancy over...
Rising with the Saints

Rising with the Saints

The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World By Dawn Marie Beutner. Ignatius Press, 2023. Paperback, 316 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Saints change the world because their own lives have become an offering to God. Their self-offering...
An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe

An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe

What is Christianity? The Last Writings  By Pope Benedict XVI. Ignatius Press, 2023. Hardcover, 230 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Budd. At the lowest point in his life, when everything was falling in ruin, King Saul of Israel knew whom he really wanted to...