Home, Sour Home
Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations By Benedict Beckeld. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022 Hardcover, 264 pages, $32.95. Reviewed by Daniel Fischer. Americans’ relationship with their country resembles a fraying marriage....
The Soul Always Takes Priority
Now and at the Hour of Our Death: Making Moral Decisions at the End of Life By Nikolas T. Nikas and Bruce W. Green. Ignatius, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. While washing the dishes, I listened to a shock jock philosophize about...
Dissonance and Faith
Seven Challenges that Shaped the New Testament: Understanding the Inherent Tensions of Early Christian Faith By F. Scott Spencer. Baker Academic, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Budd. I wish someone else had written this book. I don’t say...
Hope in the Past, Hope in the Future
Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church By Stephen O. Presley. Eerdmans, 2024. Paperback, 230 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Winston Hottman. What should be done about the decline of Christianity in the West? While some proposed solutions have...
For America250, @lsheahan enters the fray:
What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."