An Immense Old People’s Home

An Immense Old People’s Home

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

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

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...
Metaphysics for a Broken Western World

Metaphysics for a Broken Western World

The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives Edited by Christopher M. Cullen, SJ and Franklin T. Harkins. Catholic University of America Press, 2019. Hardcover, 320 pages, $75. Reviewed by Gerard T. Mundy The Western world...
Scientism Is Not Science

Scientism Is Not Science

By Pedro Blas González Scientism, Science, and Technology Scientism is not science but an ideology that reduces man’s hope and aspiration to the scientific method. Scientism promises postmodern man an alarming sense of control over the here-and-now. Scientism, along...