The Missing Virtue
Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue By Christopher M. Bellitto. Georgetown University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Good people around the world have encountered narcissists who love no one and nothing, not even...
Remaking Cold War Diplomacy
A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s By Anthony M. Eames. University of Massachusetts Press, 2023. Paperback, 272 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Dr. Jason C. Phillips. Anthony M. Eames currently serves as the director...
When Rulers Look in the Mirror
The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas By William McCormick, S.J. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 288 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Thomas F.X. Varacalli. In the field of political philosophy, Saint Thomas...
The Achievement of the Irish Poets
Catholic Modernism and the Irish “Avant-Garde”: The Achievement of Brian Coffey, Denis Devlin, and Thomas MacGreevy By James Matthew Wilson. Catholic University of America Press, 2024. Paperback, 488 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger. Although...
The Last European
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European By Stefan Zweig. Viking Press, 1943 (English Translation). Reviewed by John P. Rossi. On February 23, 1942, while Axis forces were triumphing everywhere—the Japanese overrunning the Philippines, the British withdrawing...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!