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American Pilgrimage
We began just after daybreak. One by one, the brigades filed out of the parking lot, each singing a different hymn. Turning away from the water, the lengthening line...
Catholic America
Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North Americaby kevin starrignatius, 675 pages, $34.95 In The Good Shepherd, the 2006 spy film, mobster Joseph Palmi asks CIA agent (and stereotypical WASP)...
Gaul Divided
The January 7, 2015 terrorist attacks provoked the largest demonstrations in France since the liberation of Paris. The impressive spectacle of many thousands calling themselves “Charlie” suggests that the...
American Cicero by Bradley J. Birzer
American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll by bradley j. birzer isi, 230 pages, $25 Bradley Birzer’s new book, American Cicero: The Life of Charles Carroll, suggests that Hillsdale...
Review of The Devil Reads Derrida
The Devil Reads Derrida: And Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts by James K.A. Smith Eerdmans, 160 pages, $18 n Some may dismiss James...
Review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties by Jonathan Leaf Regnery, 247 pages, $19.95 n “What a shrill, pointless decade,” said The Simpson’ s fictional news anchor Kent Brockman...
