The Visionary Stigmatists and the Hope of Mercy
The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings By Paul Kengor. TAN Books, 2024. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. The crucifixion of Christ is the central event in Christianity, for, as Saint Paul says in his letter to the...
Challenging the Contraceptive Mind
Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. “We all come from divorce,” Wendell Berry once said, in an interview in Laura Dunn’s film The...
Motherhood in an Age of Childlessness
Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. In January 2022, Pope Francis struck a nerve during his Wednesday public audience. Noting...
The Conservative Resurgence
Up From Conservatism: Revitalizing the Right after a Generation of Decay Edited by Arthur Milikh. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 240 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Shaun Rieley. In recent years, it has become common on the Right to ask rhetorically, “what has...
Religious Illiberalism and the American Order
American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order By Jerome E. Copulsky. Yale University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $40. Reviewed by Miles Smith IV. For the past few years—more specifically since Donald Trump made it very clear he was happy to pursue...
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…