“Putting Civil Back in Civilization”

“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

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

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 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...
Back to the Pro-Life Future

Back to the Pro-Life Future

Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade by Daniel K. Williams. Oxford University Press, 2016. Hardcover, 380 pages, $35.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. “Before you know it,” commented NARAL president Lee Gilding in 1973, days after the...