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Illiberal Protestants

Ramona Tausz

Protestants and American Conservatism:A Short Historyby gillis harp oxford, 336 pages, $36.95 Today, conservative critics of liberalism tend to be Catholic. Pundits warn of “‘post-liberal’ ferment among a coterie...

A Call For Common Sense

Ramona Tausz

In South Dakota, some are arguing that protecting children is bad for business.  The state’s House of Representatives will vote today on a bill that would prohibit doctors from...

Atwood’s False Testament

Ramona Tausz

The Testamentsnnby margaret atwoodnntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in 1986 of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985). “If I wanted to say just one thing...

Liberalism as Luxury

Ramona Tausz

A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalismby adam gopnik basic, 272 pages, $28 Adam Gopnik is the New Yorker columnist notorious for comparing the post-9/11 scent of...

Little Books of the Prairie

Ramona Tausz

Prairie Fires:The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilderby caroline frasermetropolitan, 640 pages, $35 The Little House Books by laura ingalls wilder edited by caroline fraser library of america, 1,490...