“Putting Civil Back in Civilization”
The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves By Alexandra Hudson. St. Martin’s Press, 2023. Hardcover, 416 pages, $29. Reviewed by Henry T. Edmondson III. Speech codes, safe spaces, and intolerant demands for diversity, equity, and inclusion...
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...
Arguing the Unarguable Thing
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing By Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis. Regnery Publishing, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicole M. King. It is common practice for professors (or teaching assistants) of English...
The War for the Second Age
The Fall of Númenor, And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth By J. R. R. Tolkien. William Morrow, 2022. Hardcover, 320 pages, $40.00. Reviewed by Ben Reinhard. From childhood well into middle age, J. R. R. Tolkien was haunted by a recurring nightmare: a...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.