The Meaning of Happiness

The Meaning of Happiness

How and How Not to Be Happy J. Budziszewski. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by David Weinberger. “Most people virtually agree,” wrote Aristotle, that happiness “is the highest of all the goods pursued in action.” But then, as now, people...
Gnosticism, American Style

Gnosticism, American Style

Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can’t Say or Even Think by Harley Price. FGF Books, 2022. Hardcover, 326 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. After reading about Gnosticism, which is Greek for Know-it-all-ism, for years, all I could...
Quo Vadis, America?

Quo Vadis, America?

War and Peace: A Fulton Sheen Anthology by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Edited by Al Smith. Sophia Institute Press, 2022. Paperback, 416 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Joseph Tuttle. War and Peace is a collection of three series of radio addresses given by the great...
Civil Society and the Marketplace

Civil Society and the Marketplace

Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America By Rachel S. Ferguson and Marcus M. Witcher. Emancipation Books, 2022. Paperback, 464 pages, $18.00. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Perhaps the first book ever published to cite...
Underneath It All, England Is a Catholic Country

Underneath It All, England Is a Catholic Country

Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England By Joseph Pearce. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 384 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. England is a Catholic country. Its culture, its politics, and its very heart is Catholic.  At least, this is the case made...
The White Guard: Life Imitating Art, Yet Again

The White Guard: Life Imitating Art, Yet Again

by Dwight Sutherland, Jr. Seldom does one encounter a novel which offers such insight into today’s events. This is particularly true when the novel is based on events that happened over a century ago.  Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian author who was born in Kiev in...