An Elegy for Place and Time
On Homesickness: A Plea by Jesse Donaldson. Vandalia Press / West Virginia University Press, 2017. Paperback, 250 pages, $18. Reviewed by Jacob A. Bruggeman Robert Frost once wrote of a poem’s beginnings as “a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...
Natural Law in One Stop
On the Law of Nature: A Demonstrative Method by Niels Hemmingsen. Translated and edited by E. J. Hutchinson with an introduction by E. J. Hutchinson and Korey D. Maas. CLP Academic, 2018. Hardcover, 252 pages, $30. Reviewed by W. Bradford Littlejohn If I...
Tales of Science and Fiction
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee. Dey Street Books, 2018. Hardcover, 532 pages, $29. Reviewed by Thomas F. Bertonneau For one who knows the subject matter, or who...
Reasonable Faith, Faithful Reasonableness
Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg. Regnery Gateway, 2019. Hardcover, 192 pages, $29. Reviewed by Jason Jewell In “The Blue Cross,” G. K. Chesterton’s first and most famous story about the priest-detective Father Brown, the...
The Great and Tolerable Empire
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $26. Reviewed by James Baresel When a book is advertised as a “wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness” one can usually expect that...
Scalia’s Applied Faith
On Faith: Lessons from an American Believer by Antonin Scalia. Edited by Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan. Crown Forum, 2019. Hardcover, 256 pages, $22. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks Antonin Scalia was a faithful and patriotic man who devoted his life to the...
Ancestry, Time, and the Intimacy of Being
By Pedro Blas González Ancestry and Time From what primordial field comes the seed that breathes life into me? I ponder about the thoughts and aspirations of my ancestors. In order to keep life in perspective, we must reflect about things that once were and are no...
The Education of Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution by Myron Magnet. Encounter, 2019. Hardcover, 168 pages, $24. Reviewed by Peter Wood Clarence Thomas graduated cum laude from the College of Holy Cross in Massachusetts in 1971 and received a J.D. from Yale University in 1974....
Tertullian and the Rise of Religious Freedom
Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom by Robert Louis Wilken. Yale University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 248 pages, $26. Reviewed by Mark L. Movsesian The conventional history of religious freedom in the West, the one most of us have...
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