The Fourth Awokening and Its Discontents
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite By Musa al-Gharbi. Princeton University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. I would like to alert University Bookman readers to an excellent and important book that has...
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...
The Social Gospel for Our Times
The End of Civility: Christ and Prophetic Division By Ryan Andrew Newson. Baylor University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 248 pages, $54.99. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In the past few years, there has been a growing number of commentators decrying the lack of civility in...
Political Exodus in America
American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 232 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. American Refugees is a worthwhile and highly readable account of an important...
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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."