Leisure and the Lost Ascent 

Leisure and the Lost Ascent 

An essay on Josef Pieper’s “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”  By Catherine Contonio. The modern world no longer recognizes the Greeks’ concept of leisure. The Greeks, in turn, would no longer recognize the modern notion of work, which has spread to cover the whole of...
Educational Counterrevolution 

Educational Counterrevolution 

Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation By Pete Hegseth and David Goodwin. Broadside, 2022. Hardcover, 288 pages, $32. Reviewed by John Kainer. Friedrich Nietzsche is perhaps most famous for the words he has a madman speak in his book, The...
The Formless Void of the Therapeutic

The Formless Void of the Therapeutic

The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion, and the Self Edited by William G. Batchelder, IV and Michael P. Harding. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 324 pages, $115. Reviewed by Albert Norton, Jr.  We should care about the philosophy of Philip...
Defending the Christian Faith

Defending the Christian Faith

100 Tough Questions for Catholics: Common Obstacles To Faith Today By David Bonagura Jr. Sophia Institute Press, 2025. Paperback, 176 pages, $17.95. Reviewed by David Weinberger.  “In the day to day trenches of adult life,” writes David Foster Wallace, “there is...
Poet on a Volcano

Poet on a Volcano

Horace: Poet on a Volcano By Peter Stothard.  Yale University Press, 2025.  Hardcover. 288 pages. $28. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. Once upon a time, a middle-aged poet climbed up to the top of the Sicilian volcano Mount Etna. He gazed a while with longing and rising...