Climate Realism in an Alarmed Age
Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism Edited by E. Calvin Beisner and David R. Legates. Regnery Publishing, 2024. Hardcover, 480 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Joshua J. Bowman. Calvin Beisner and David Legates’s edited volume, Climate and Energy, seeks to bring...
Still Having Trouble with Gender
Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions By Alex Byrne. Polity Press, 2023. Hardcover, 320 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Nathanael Blake. America is confused about gender, and MIT philosophy professor Alex Byrne is here to help. Earlier this year, Byrne faced down...
Localism is Americanism
Localism: Coming Home to Catholic Social Teaching Edited by Dale Ahlquist and Michael Warren Davis. Sophia Institute Press, 2024. Hardcover, 240 pages, $21.95. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. If the editors of this collection win the day, a new “ism” will be...
Reforming Education Begins (and ends) with the Virtues
Teaching the Virtues By David Hein. Mecosta House, 2025. Paperback, 222 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Thomas Griffin. Aristotle famously began his Metaphysics with a foundational principle: “All men by nature desire to know.” This leads to two further questions: What...
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