T. K. Rabb: In Memoriam

T. K. Rabb: In Memoriam

by | Oct 13, 2019

As 2019 begins to wind down, we take stock of the year and note the gaps left by our losses. One such loss is Theodore (T. K.) Rabb, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, who passed away this January. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1937 to a Jewish...
The Empire Has No Clothes

The Empire Has No Clothes

by | Oct 13, 2019

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2019. Hardcover, 528 pages, $30. Reviewed by Joseph S. Laughon. A common Lovecraftian theme is the peril in searching deep within one’s own history for...
The Origin of the Secular Species

The Origin of the Secular Species

by | Sep 29, 2019

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland. Basic Books, 2019. Hardcover, 624 pages, $32. Reviewed by Ben Sixsmith “Just as the Bishop of Oxford refused to consider that he might be descended from an ape,” Tom Holland writes cleverly in the...
Reasonable Faith, Faithful Reasonableness

Reasonable Faith, Faithful Reasonableness

by | Aug 25, 2019

Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg. Regnery Gateway, 2019. Hardcover, 192 pages, $29. Reviewed by Jason Jewell In “The Blue Cross,” G. K. Chesterton’s first and most famous story about the priest-detective Father Brown, the...
The Great and Tolerable Empire

The Great and Tolerable Empire

by | Aug 18, 2019

Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black Encounter Books, 2019. Hardcover, 216 pages, $26. Reviewed by James Baresel When a book is advertised as a “wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness” one can usually expect that...