Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk. Regnery Gateway, 2024. Hardcover, 400 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. In January 2022, Pope Francis struck a nerve during his Wednesday public audience. Noting...
American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order By Jerome E. Copulsky. Yale University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 384 pages, $40. Reviewed by Miles Smith IV. For the past few years—more specifically since Donald Trump made it very clear he was happy to pursue...
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa By Anthony Grafton. Belknap Press, 2023. Hardcover, 304 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. “Dame Frances Yates” is a name that usually does not cross the lips of the educated public. However, in the field of...
Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World By Thomas Griffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 2024. Paperback, 168 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. The New Deal. The Great Society. No Child Left Behind. Build Back Better. The...
Commentary on Proverbs By Philip Melanchthon. Translated and edited by Derek Cooper and Timothy J. Wengert. CLP Academic, 2023. Hardcover, 282 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Manfred Svensson. Who has the most ancient wisdom? Are Christians plundering “the gold of the...
The Postwar British Conservative Movement
@DanJTPitt on Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War" by @KitKowol @OUPAcademic