Originalism on American Terms
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding by Robert R. Reilly. Ignatius Press, 2020. Hardcover, 384 pages, $28. Originalism’s Promise: A Natural Law Account of the American Constitution by Lee J. Strang. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paperback, 326 pages, $35....
A Crisis and the Heroic March of Medicine
The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History by Thomas Helling, M.D. Pegasus Books, 2022. Hardcover, 496 pages, $32. Reviewed by Karl C. Shaffenburg The inscription on Dr. Thomas Helling’s book, The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine: A History...
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...
Americanism and the ‘Roman’ Catholic
American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War by D. G. Hart. Cornell University Press, 2020. Hardback, 280 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl In 1864, Pope Pius IX issued Syllabus Errorum, outlining heresies opposed to Catholic Church...
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.
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Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.