Learning from the Habsburg Mystique
The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times By Eduard Habsburg. Sophia Institute Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What makes the Habsburgs, rulers for six centuries of the Holy Roman Empire and later the...
The Catholic Enlightenment
Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason By Joseph T. Stuart. Sophia Institute Press, 2020. Paperback, 400 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Christian Browne. The question of how, and whether, to reconcile the Catholic Church with the modern world has been...
The Inspiration We Need
By Strange Ways: Theologians and Their Paths to the Catholic Church Edited by Jonathan Fuqua and Daniel Strudwick. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 300 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Conversion, the redirecting of one’s life towards God and truth, is the...
Paul Johnson (1937-2023): A Valediction
By M. D. Aeschliman. The prolific English historian and journalist Paul Johnson died two months ago and there was no dearth of substantial obituaries in the British and American media, for both of which he wrote frequently and influentially for sixty years....
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.