Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious By Ross Douthat. Zondervan, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Luca Frumento. In 2006, Pope Benedict XVI gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg explaining how Europe came to forget Christianity’s deep...
Fr. Spitzer’s Universe: Exploring Life’s Big Questions By Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. EWTN Publishing Inc., 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Ever wonder what Original Sin is? Or whether there is evidence for the human soul? Or why...
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now By Daniel J. Mahoney. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 168 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. At the beginning of The Persistence of the Ideological Lie, Daniel J. Mahoney points...
On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice By Adam Kirsch. W. W. Norton & Company, 2024. Hardcover, 160 pages, $24.99 Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The term “settler colonialism” has exploded in popularity. According to the Google Books NGram Viewer,...
Chateaubriand: Selected Writings Translated by Edward Maxwell III. Imperium Press, 2024. Paperback, 176 pages, $8.50. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand—nobleman, adventurer, poet, and memoirist—a sampling of whose work appears in this...
The Virtues of Limits By David McPherson. Oxford University Press, 2022 (Paperback 2025). Paperback, 208 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. In an age that glorifies leaping past all barriers, David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of...
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