The Sacredness of Life: An Unbought Grace

The Sacredness of Life: An Unbought Grace

The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors  By Noreen Johnson, M.D., and Haywood Robinson, M.D. Kolbe & Anthony, 2023. Hardcover, 216 pages, $24.95. Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine...
The Social Gospel for Our Times

The Social Gospel for Our Times

The End of Civility: Christ and Prophetic Division By Ryan Andrew Newson. Baylor University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 248 pages, $54.99. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In the past few years, there has been a growing number of commentators decrying the lack of civility in...
Political Exodus in America

Political Exodus in America

American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon.  Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 232 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. American Refugees is a worthwhile and highly readable account of an important...
Can the United States Have a Good History?

Can the United States Have a Good History?

The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 By Jon K. Lauck. University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. Paperback, 366 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. Historians have a complicated job. Their ultimate aim should be to use the available...
Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution

Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin. Basic Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Something has gone wrong with America. Even among the politically disengaged, one can detect a...
“Putting Civil Back in Civilization”

“Putting Civil Back in Civilization”

The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves By Alexandra Hudson. St. Martin’s Press, 2023. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. Speech codes, safe spaces, and intolerant demands for diversity, equity, and inclusion...