The Missing Virtue

The Missing Virtue

Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue By Christopher M. Bellitto. Georgetown University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Good people around the world have encountered narcissists who love no one and nothing, not even...
When Rulers Look in the Mirror

When Rulers Look in the Mirror

The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas By William McCormick, S.J.  The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.  Paperback, 288 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Thomas F.X. Varacalli. In the field of political philosophy, Saint Thomas...
Humanely Conservative

Humanely Conservative

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The controversies in our country’s...
Humanely Conservative

Conservative Humanism for a Postmodern Age

The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Graham McAleer and Alexander...
We Still Need Family, Religion, and Tradition

We Still Need Family, Religion, and Tradition

Enemies of the Innocent: Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age By N. A. Haug.  Academica Press, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book is at once terribly important and terribly frustrating. How could that possibly be, one justifiably...