On Goats, and What to Do

On Goats, and What to Do

by | Apr 12, 2020

How to Burn a Goat: Farming with the Philosophers By Scott H. Moore Baylor University Press, 2019. Hardcover, 224 pp., $29.95. Reviewed by Karl C. Schaffenburg In a brief volume of shorter meditations and several more extended essays, Scott H. Moore, a philosophy...
Nietzsche’s Puritan Warriors

Nietzsche’s Puritan Warriors

by | Mar 29, 2020

Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors by Mark T. Mitchell. Regnery Gateway, 2020. Hardcover, 148 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett It is unfortunate that Mark T. Mitchell’s Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage That...
An Immense Old People’s Home

An Immense Old People’s Home

by | Mar 22, 2020

Notes on Bergson and Descartes: Philosophy, Christianity, and Modernity in Contestation By Charles Péguy. Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Bruce K. Ward. Foreword by John Milbank. Cascade Books, 2019. Paperback, 304 pages, $35. Review by Nicholas Meverel On...
Fukuyama’s Lopsided Identity

Fukuyama’s Lopsided Identity

by | Mar 15, 2020

Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Hardcover, 240 pages, $26. Reviewed by Emina Melonic The current discussions of “identity” today are overwhelmingly focused on identity politics as...
The Superhero and the City

The Superhero and the City

by | Mar 8, 2020

Superhero Ethics: 10 Comic Book Heroes; 10 Ways to Save the World; Which One Do We Need Most Now? by Travis Smith. Templeton Press, 2018. Hardcover, 190 pages, $25. Reviewed by Ryan Shinkel Classical art imitated life to cultivate it. In Greek sculpture, great souls...