The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age. Eric Voegelin Studies Yearbook 4. Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer. Brill Fink, 2025. Hardcover, 473 pages, $155. Reviewed by Lee...
Chesterton and the Philosophers Edited by Landon Loftin. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2026. Paperback, 222 pages, $28.00 Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Editor Landon Loftin has the temerity to agree and then disagree with Garry Wills, who had the temerity to declare that...
American Independence in Verse By Bradford Skow. Pentameter Press, 2025. Paperback, 94 pages, $9.99. Reviewed by Thomas Philbrick. In Book III of the Aeneid, Aeneas lands with his men on the shores of Carthage after fleeing Troy and surviving a string of harrowing...
On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular By Jonathan Sheehan. Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 608 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In the twenty-first century, several works have arisen chronicling the influence of...
The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars By Nigel Biggar. Polity Press, 2026. Hardcover, 192 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Nigel Biggar did not join the culture wars voluntarily: the culture wars came for him. He opens his new book with a...
Here It Snows in June & Other Stories By Eric Cyr. Wiseblood Books, 2026. Paperback, 156 pages, $16. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A driver on I-71 who takes the exit toward Ashland, Ohio, my home now for nearly three years, will be greeted with an oversized welcome...
Harvey Mansfield’s Long Dissent
@AdamKissel on "Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell on Deaf Ears" by Harvey C. Mansfield. @EncounterBooks
Hebraic Ideas at the Founding
Daniel James Sundahl on "Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story," Edited By Wilfred McClay and Stuart Halpern.
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