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: 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 Daniel J. Mahoney. Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community is a book that endures....
A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Penguin, 2021. Hardcover, 480 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare. David Cutler and Ed Glaeser’s new book, Survival of the City (Penguin, 2021), is an oddity. It...
The Graces of Death and Nature
Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives By Robert D. Richardson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 128 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Death is a morbid topic, one that most people...
"If classical teachers believe that truth, beauty, and goodness can indeed change the world, then the sort of student (and teacher and school) described by Esolen is a net gain for this world. And his Classical Catechism serves as a helpful tool in building the necessary common