Poet on a Volcano

Poet on a Volcano

by | Jun 1, 2025

Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard.  Yale University Press, 2025.  Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Once upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with longing and rising...
Alasdair Macintyre: Philosopher of the Ages

Alasdair Macintyre: Philosopher of the Ages

by | May 25, 2025

Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922 Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, Md.) 208 pp., $33.00 cloth, 2005 The Tasks of Philosophy: Selected Essays, Vol. 1 Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, U.K.) 244 pp., $70.00 cloth, 2006 Ethics and Politics: Selected...
Reforming Education Begins (and ends) with the Virtues

Reforming Education Begins (and ends) with the Virtues

by | May 18, 2025

Teaching the Virtues By David Hein. Mecosta House, 2025. Paperback, 222 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Aristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further questions: What...
Irretrievable Eden

Irretrievable Eden

by | May 18, 2025

Outside The Gates of Eden By David Middleton. Measure Press, 2023. Hardcover, 114 pages, $25. Reviewed by Madeleine Austin. David Middleton’s Outside the Gates of Eden is a collection of formal poems rooted in contemplation of the Book of Genesis. What does it mean to...
Renewing Our Understanding of True Freedom

Renewing Our Understanding of True Freedom

by | May 11, 2025

Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License By Brad Littlejohn. B&H Academic, 2025. Paperback, 192 pages, $22.99. Reviewed by Andrew Fowler. Freedom could be Modernity’s most overused yet least understood word. In an American context,...