The Romance of Journalism in the American Century
The Noise Of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism By Lance Morrow. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 200 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Alexander J. Fezza. It is easier to describe The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow by what it is not rather than what it is. This...
Of Man and Lost Time
The Twilight World: A Novel By Werner Herzog. Translated by Michael Hofmann. Penguin Press, 2022. Hardcover, 144 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González. Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese Imperial Army soldier who did not accept that Japan surrendered on September 2,...
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding By Kody W. Cooper and Justin Buckley Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022. Paperback, 225 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Stephen B. Presser. Ideas, they...
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...
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