Effing the Ineffable
Music as an Art by Roger Scruton. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018. Hardcover, 272 pages, $32. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price In Music as an Art, the late Roger Scruton seeks to defend Western high culture by defending its summit, classical music. It was a defense Scruton...
When Left and Right Agree
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream By Nicholas Lemann. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. Hardcover, 306 pages, $28. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy To capture the gravity of the social problems plaguing the United States, one can...
Christ in the Outback
God Is Good for You: A Defence of Christianity in Troubled Times by Greg Sheridan. Allen & Unwin, 2018. Paperback, 358 pages, $20. Reviewed by Karl Schmude Greg Sheridan is one of Australia’s leading journalists and media commentators. As the long-time Foreign...
The Age of Addiction
Packaged Pleasures. How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor. University of Chicago Press, 2014. Hardcover, 351 pages, $35. Reviewed by Gerald J. Russello The age of industry was—is—also an age of addiction. We like the...
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