Whether the Heart Has Its Reasons of Which It Knows Nothing
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment By Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey. Princeton University Press, 2021. Hardcover, 264 pages, $27.95. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. My parents’ wish is for me to be happy is a phrase so often quoted to...
The Meaning of Happiness
How and How Not to Be Happy J. Budziszewski. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by David Weinberger. “Most people virtually agree,” wrote Aristotle, that happiness “is the highest of all the goods pursued in action.” But then, as now, people...
Christianity from Individualism to Holism… and Back Again?
By Godefroy Desjonquères This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. Chantal Delsol’s essay offers a sharp and convincing...
Between Post-Christianity and Post-Democracy: On Delsol’s Pagan West
By Nathan Pinkoski This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. In La fin de la Chrétienté, Chantal Delsol describes the reality that...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.