Here’s Why Not
How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death By Ewan C. Goligher, MD. Lexham Press, 2024. Paperback, 160 pages, $ 18.99. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Why not let patients determine whether to die at the hand of a physician? Ewan...
Gentlemen Losers
Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan By Alex Pappademas & Joan LeMay. University of Texas Press, 2023. Hardcover, 280 pages, $35. Reviewed by Asher Gelzer-Govatos. Steely Dan, those infamously reclusive...
A Social Scientific Apologia for Marriage
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization By Brad Wilcox. Broadside Books, 2024. Hardcover, 320, $32. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. The University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox might be the world’s leading academic...
Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis By James Davison Hunter. Yale, 2024. Hardcover, 504 pages, $40. Reviewed by Brad Littlejohn. Being of a chronically pessimistic disposition, I used to enjoy picking out Despair.com posters...
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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."