Bring Back the Virtues, Medieval Style
Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life By Grace Hamman. Zondervan Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 224 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. A few years ago, my husband and I learned we were expecting a girl. As we were considering...
Mark Twain Revisited
Mark Twain By Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 2025. Hardcover, 1,200 pages, $45. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Let us stipulate at the outset that Ron Chernow has indeed covered the Twain waterfront in this massive volume. How could he not? Twain appears “Afloat” in Part...
Political Economy Before Adam Smith
Early English Tracts on Commerce Edited by John Ramsay McCulloch. CL Press, 2024. Paperback, 693 pages, $19.50. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. John Ramsay McCulloch (1789-1864) doesn’t roll off the zealous tongues of free marketeers as smoothly as Adam Smith, but he...
Science and Meaning: Parallel Tracks?
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence By Samuel T. Wilkinson. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Samuel T. Wilkinson, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has written a...
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