Catholic Zen
Person Means Relation By David Walsh. St. Augustine’s Press, 2024. Paperback, 110 pages, $16. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Those familiar with the writing of personalist philosopher David Walsh know that he’s densely aphoristic. Large tracts of his works, notably...
Outlining Sanity in the Garden
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening: Cultivating Tomatoes, Greens, Peas, Beans, Squash, Joy, and Serenity By Carol Deppe. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015. Paperback, 288 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Eric Scheske. American gardening literature is a big thing. Amazon has an...
Holy Living After the Fall
After Christendom By Michael Warren Davis. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $17.89. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. This is a fairly simple book—part polemic and part spiritual manual. Mr. Davis, its author, is best known for his previous work, The...
Frontier Fiction at Its Best
The Cannibal Owl By Aaron Gwyn. Belle Point Press, 2025. Paperback, 80 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by Daniel Cowper. The Cannibal Owl, by Aaron Gwyn, is a novella about Levi English, a boy on the Texas frontier of the 1820s who grows up among a band of Comanche. It is...
The Dangers of Modern Nationalism
A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 By Carlton J. H. Hayes. Harper Collins, 1941. Reviewed by John Rossi. When I started teaching an introductory European History course over 60 years ago, I chose as my textbook Carlton Hayes’s two volume A Political and Cultural...
The book’s defense of McCarthyism also fares even better over half a century after its publication, as the opening of the Soviet archives gave Americans far more information than the authors had in 1954 and made abundantly clear not only the reality of Soviet infiltration of the…
Today, we know so much more about the communist infiltration of our government and society in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s than William F. Buckley, Jr. did in his early career. Yet, it turns out that Buckley and his allies were closer to the truth about domestic communism than their…