Talking Classical Education
Classical Catechism Anthony Esolen. Thales Press, 2025. Paperback, 109 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Sean Hadley. It would be a rather run-of-the-mill comment amongst any group of Christians to state that catechisms play an important role in the life of the Church....
Liberal Education and Its Critics
Liberal Education and Democracy By Bob Pepperman Taylor. Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 208 pages, $40. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. Ater an even 100 pages, Professor Taylor arrives at the conclusion to his very fine Liberal Education and Democracy. It reads...
Poetry of Transcendence
Killing Orpheus By Forester McClatchey. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2026. Paperback, 88 pages, $20. Reviewed by Camilo Peralta. Might a revival of our degraded culture, or at least its verse, be possible? A recent collection titled Killing Orpheus from Forester...
The Consensus Reality
The Polarization Myth: America’s Surprising Consensus on Race, Schools, and Sex By Jonathan Butcher. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 248 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In The Polarization Myth, Jonathan Butcher points to evidence that America is...
Britain at the Turning Point
Advance Britannia: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1942-1945 By Alan Allport. Knopf, 2026. Hardcover, 656 pages, $40. Reviewed by John P. Rossi. Advance Britannia is the second volume of Alan Allport’s history of Britain’s role in World War II. The first...
.@JM_Butcher himself admits that there are in fact important divisions within American society, but he believes that “Americans are united on some very important questions that are driving debates in statehouses, schoolhouses, and even your house.” In this, as in nearly all that
Despite [Kirk's] and others’ efforts to prevent further decline in transcendent beliefs, more than a century later, it is clear that those Americans who adhere to them represent a small and frequently marginalized minority. @fhmcclatchey must be counted among their number, for he