A Liberal Who Met the Cancel Mob

A Liberal Who Met the Cancel Mob

The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars By Nigel Biggar. Polity Press, 2026. Hardcover, 192 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan.  Nigel Biggar did not join the culture wars voluntarily: the culture wars came for him. He opens his new book with a...
A Problem Deeper than Groupthink

A Problem Deeper than Groupthink

Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth: Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment  By Robert P. George. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 414 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by R. McKay Stangler. The first question, and perhaps the most pressing one when reviewing a book by Robert P....
Amici

Amici

Michelangelo and Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius By William E. Wallace.  Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 248 pages, $35.00.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. There is a running joke that Americans remain perpetually torn between Puritanism and pornography....
Solzhenitsyn and the Spirituality of Self-Limitation

Solzhenitsyn and the Spirituality of Self-Limitation

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Edited by Ignat Solzhenitsyn. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025. Hardcover, 228 pages, $28. Reviewed by William Scott. The eighth title to appear in Notre Dame Press’s “Center for...
Cracking the Code to Civilization

Cracking the Code to Civilization

The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd Edition) By Waller R. Newell. Independently Published, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $14.99. Reviewed by Clifford Angell Bates, Jr. Waller R. Newell’s The Code of Man: Love, Courage, Pride, Family, Country (2nd...