Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism by James Simpson. Belknap Press, 2019. Hardcover, 464 pages, $35. Reviewed by Micah Meadowcroft For those who can competently read it’s a regrettable feature of life that the interpolation of...
The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest by Walter A. McDougall. Yale University Press, 2016. Hardcover, 424 pages, $30. Reviewed by Richard M. Gamble Walter McDougall begins his sober analysis of civil religion...
Caliphate Redefined: The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought by Hüseyin Yilmaz. Princeton University Press, 2018. Hardcover, 384 pages, $40. Reviewed by Fitzroy Morrissey In his very useful pocket-guide The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction (2016), the...
The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity By Daniel J. Mahoney Foreword by Pierre Manent. Encounter Books, 2018. Hardcover, 163 pages, $24. Reviewed by Grant Havers In this age of numerous polemics against “political correctness,” “Social...
Christian Martyrs Under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World by Christian C. Sahner. Princeton University Press, 2018. Hardcover, 360 pages, $39. Reviewed by Jane Peters On February 15, 2018 in the village of al-Our, the Coptic Orthodox Church...
A Forgotten Russian Immigrant Poet in Hollywood
@NadyaWilliams81 on "Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood" by Alexander Voloshin. Translated by Boris Dralyuk. Paul Dry Books.
The Scientific Evidence for God
Thomas Griffin on "God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution" by Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies. Palomar Publishers.
