Identity Politics as Ersatz Religion

Identity Politics as Ersatz Religion

American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time By Joshua Mitchell. Encounter, 2020/2022.  Paperback, 312 pages, $20.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. Identity politics is one of the defining issues of our time. In American Awakening, Joshua...
From The Quest for Community to the Restoration of Authority

The Quest for Community at 70

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom By Robert Nisbet. Regnery/ISI Books, 2010 (originally published in 1953). Paperback, 330 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Bradley J. Birzer. 1953 was an annus mirabilis for the conservative movement....
Cities, as Social Science Sees Them

Cities, as Social Science Sees Them

The Future of Cities Edited by Joel Kotkin and Ryan Streeter. American Enterprise Institute, 2022. Reviewed by Mark G. Brennan.  Those who care about the future of cities need to pay attention to Chapman University Urban Futures Fellow Joel Kotkin. The New York Times...
Paths of Protestant Social Thought

Paths of Protestant Social Thought

Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction Edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich.  The Davenant Press, 2022. Paperback, 270 pages, $26.95. Reviewed by Joshua Bowman. One of the greatest dangers to the vitality and orthodoxy of Protestant...