Help Yourself
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up By Abigail Shrier. Sentinel, 2024. Hardcover, 320 pages, $30. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. Abigail Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy has a simple thesis: children and teens get too much therapy and too much of that therapy is...
Sowell’s Summary Argument
Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell. Basic Books, 2023. Hardcover, 224 pages, $28. Reviewed by Edward Weech. Over the past decade, the discourse of “social justice” has ripped through the Western world, inspiring a cultural insurgency that has undermined the...
To Recover Is to Return
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture By Anthony Esolen. Regnery Gateway, 2017/2022. Paperback, 256 pages, $16.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In an age of political correctness and guarded speech, Anthony Esolen’s writing strikes one as wonderfully...
Recovering the Person
The Apocalypse of the Sovereign Self: Recovering the Christian Mystery of Personhood By Gil Bailie. Angelico Press, 2023. Paperback, 336 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. One question of the moment is whether the West can survive without Christianity as...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.