Why Beauty Matters   

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

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...
A Time for Restoration

A Time for Restoration

Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton  By Daniel J. Mahoney. St. Augustine’s Press, 2022.  Paperback, 160 pages, $20.00 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The prolific author and scholar Daniel J. Mahoney has penned...
The Personal Foundation of Reality

The Personal Foundation of Reality

Who Are You, Really?: A Philosopher’s Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Persons By Joshua Rasmussen. IVP Academic, 2023. Paperback, 300 pages, $30.   Reviewed by David Weinberger. “By my analysis, then, I am led to this vision of reality: the primary nature...