Thinking as a Human Being

Thinking about Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism James D. Madden. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 220 pages, $29. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what it means to have a mind? Is thinking, for example, unique to the human species? Or...

JP O’Malley Interviews Author Ian Buruma

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II By Ian Buruma. Penguin Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $30. Ian Buruma published The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II early last year. The University...

Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps

Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders By Michael Barone.  Encounter Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 228 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Christian Sellar. This book is the fruit of the labor of a journalist and political...

Imprisoned by the Internet

Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age By Samuel D. James. Crossway, 2023. Paperback, 208 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Historian Oswald Spengler famously argued that man, at least since the Dark Ages, has been animated by a...

An Unsettling Sense of Justice

A Glooming Peace This Morning By Allen Mendenhall.  Livingston Press, 2023.  Paperback, 130 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Joshua S. Fullman. Justice is a term frequently and haphazardly tossed around in contemporary parlance. Rather than rooted in the rich heritage of...