by John P. Rossi | Apr 6, 2025
A Generation of Materialism, 1871-1900 By Carlton J. H. Hayes. Harper Collins, 1941. Reviewed by John Rossi. When I started teaching an introductory European History course over 60 years ago, I chose as my textbook Carlton Hayes’s two volume A Political and Cultural...
by Chris Marlink | Mar 31, 2025
Prospects for Anglo-American Conservatism in the Tradition of Russell Kirk and Roger Scruton Join us on June 27 and 28, 2025, for a very special conference that considers the contemporary prospects for the Anglo-American intellectual conservative tradition. ...
by Jesse Hake | Mar 30, 2025
Unless the Lord Builds the House: Shared Foundations for Christian Education By Andrew Kern. CiRCE Institute, 2024. Paperback, 118 pages, $20.99. Reviewed by Jesse Hake. Andrew Kern’s vision for education in Unless the Lord Builds the House is as expansive and as...
by J. Camden Kidwell | Mar 30, 2025
Why Aquinas Matters Now By Oliver Keenan. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025. Hardcover, 240 pages, $22. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. More than seven-hundred years have elapsed since Dominican friar St. Thomas Aquinas passed away. With all the changes in the world since the...
by Dan Rattelle | Mar 30, 2025
Fret Not By Michael Shindler. Finishing Line Press, 2024. Paperback, 40 pages, $17.99. Reviewed by Dan Rattelle. A first look at Fret Not quickly reveals that its author, Michael Shindler, does not have an MFA. Good. Absent is any sort of knowing irony in its deeply...
by Sarah Reardon | Mar 23, 2025
Exile’s Journey By Jeffrey Bilbro. Little Gidding Press, 2024. Paperback, 64 pages, $11. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. In my recent contemplations about literature, I have been struck by the mundanity and profundity that often simultaneously accompany the act of reading....
by John Rodden | Mar 23, 2025
Future Shock By Alvin Toffler. Random House, 1970. Reviewed by John Rodden. More than seven years after the #MeToo movement exploded in October 2017 in the aftermath of public outrage over allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the...
by Luke C. Sheahan | Mar 16, 2025
The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage By Jonathan Turley. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan. Free speech lurks amid many of the controversies of the last several centuries. From Charles I’s infamous...
by Daniel James Sundahl | Mar 16, 2025
A Theology of Fiction By Cassandra Nelson. Wiseblood Books, 2025. Paperback, 116 pages, $10. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. A bit north and then west of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, one can stumble across an unincorporated community called...
by Paul Krause | Mar 16, 2025
The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings By Paul Kengor. TAN Books, 2024. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. The crucifixion of Christ is the central event in Christianity, for, as Saint Paul says in his letter to the...
