What Do Fungi Have to Do with Athens?
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures By Merlin Sheldrake. Random House, 2020. Hardcover, 368 pages, $28. Reviewed by Eve Tushnet. There are fungi that hunt their prey. Fungi can communicate, trade, and defend. They...
Philosophy and the Meaningful Life
Philosophy: What Every Catholic Should Know By Peter Kreeft. Ignatius Press, 2023. Paperback, 270 pages, $16.95 Reviewed by David Weinberger. In the latest of his more than 100 books, philosopher Peter Kreeft answers 72 pressing philosophical questions ranging from...
Why Beauty Matters
The Wounds of Beauty By Margarita Mooney Suarez. Cluny Media, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner. What is beauty and why is it so important, particularly in the realm of art and education? Margarita Mooney Suarez delves into this...
Christian Freedom and the Western Political Tradition
Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition By D. C. Schindler. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 550 Pages, $60. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Around 2014, pundits and Washington, D.C.-based journalists announced the arrival...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.