The Machine or the Garden?
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity By Paul Kingsnorth. Thesis/Penguin Random House, 2025. Hardcover, 368 pages, $32. Reviewed by Paul Krause. In the beginning was the garden. That is a very standard myth to start. Many cultures have foundation myths that...
Personalism in the Age of AI
Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko. Lexington Books, 2025. Hardcover, 266 pages, $115. Reviewed by Grant R. Martsolf. The first time I had ever heard of ChatGPT was in April of...
Aliens to Life
The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World By Christine Rosen. W.W. Norton and Co., 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by J. Camden Kidwell. Eighteen years have passed since Steve Jobs released a device capable of putting cyberspace...
The Rise of the World Builders
World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics By Bruno Maçães. Cambridge University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 274 pages, $29.95 Reviewed by Trevor Shelley. The geopolitical analyst, former diplomat, Harvard PhD (under Harvey Mansfield), global columnist, and...
The first piece in our special series focusing on Russell Kirk’s work on America is out! https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/what-the-american-revolution-secured-order-justice-and-freedom/ thank you @lsheahan @ubookman