Revolution and Counter Revolution
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future By Patrick J. Deneen. Sentinel, 2023. Hardcover, 288 pages, $30. Reviewed by John G. Grove. It’s difficult to decide whether Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change is to be faulted for being too ambitious or not ambitious enough. ...
Liberalism in its Complexity
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism By Alan S. Kahan. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 528 pages, $45. Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century By Joshua L. Cherniss. Princeton University Press, 2021....
Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair
Renewing America’s Civic Compact Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2023. Hardcover, 258 pages, $100. Reviewed by Thomas Kelly. For many 2024 carries with it a very real sense of civic despair. There is of course the “dread” that many feel...
Citizenship Matters
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback, 326 pages, $42.99. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley have edited a wonderful collection of essays about topics related...
"How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death" by @ecgoligher, MD.
Reviewed by @pricerobertg. @LexhamPress
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