Gnosticism, American Style
Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can’t Say or Even Think by Harley Price. FGF Books, 2022. Hardcover, 326 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. After reading about Gnosticism, which is Greek for Know-it-all-ism, for years, all I could...
The Revolution is Still Permanent
Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism by James Simpson. Belknap Press, 2019. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by Micah Meadowcroft For those who can competently read it’s a regrettable feature of life that the interpolation of...
Repulsed by the Education Cartel
The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education by Richard J. Bishirjian. St. Augustine’s Press, 2017. Hardcover, 121 pages, $22. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education is the story of...
Tipping the State’s Sacred Cows
The False Promise of Big Government: How Washington Helps the Rich and Hurts the Poor by Patrick M. Garry. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2017. Paperback, 112 pages, $10. Reviewed by Jacob Bruggeman Published in 2017 by University of South Dakota professor Patrick...
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