A Social Scientific Apologia for Marriage
Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization By Brad Wilcox. Broadside Books, 2024. Hardcover, 320, $32. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson. The University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox might be the world’s leading academic...
Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?
Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis By James Davison Hunter. Yale, 2024. Hardcover, 504 pages, $40. Reviewed by Brad Littlejohn. Being of a chronically pessimistic disposition, I used to enjoy picking out Despair.com posters...
Kirk’s Constitution: From the Roots to the End of American Order?
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Let me begin with what may seem an odd claim: the American Constitution is a central concern of Russell Kirk’s vast body of work. This statement is...
Love That Tells the Truth
Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age By Rosaria Butterfield. Crossway, 2023. Hardcover, 368 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. Pride flags bedeck the Planned Parenthood clinic in my city. Often the volunteers who “escort” women into the abortion clinic wear...
A Christmas Carol is great literature. Ghosts are a must for Christmas.