Bring Back the Virtues, Medieval Style

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...
Still Having Trouble with Gender

Still Having Trouble with Gender

Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions By Alex Byrne. Polity Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. America is confused about gender, and MIT philosophy professor Alex Byrne is here to help. Earlier this year, Byrne faced down...
Eric Voegelin’s Later Thought

Eric Voegelin’s Later Thought

Eric Voegelin’s Late Meditations and Essays. Critical Commentary Companions. Edited by Michael Franz. St. Augustine’s Press, 2023. Paperback, 375 pages, $32.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. One of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, Eric...
Science and Meaning: Parallel Tracks?

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...
The Formless Void of the Therapeutic

The Formless Void of the Therapeutic

The Philosophy of Philip Rieff: Cultural Conflict, Religion, and the Self Edited by William G. Batchelder, IV and Michael P. Harding. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. Hardcover, 324 pages, $115. Reviewed by Albert Norton, Jr.  We should care about the philosophy of Philip...