Book review

What Are Bookstores For?

Good bookstores invite us to contemplate truths that lie beyond our everyday concerns. Continue Reading »

13 Jun 2022

The Antidote to Apocalyptic Thinking

Does apocalypticism about American Christianity merit more serious consideration? Hard to say, but I’m struck by the radically truncated and highly selective historical memory that seems to characterize so many accounts of our current situation. Continue Reading »

7 Jun 2022

Two Views of Suburban America

by John Wilson

In his new book, Bill McKibben wonders whether the flag, cross, and station wagon of his youth were really so good for America. Continue Reading »

20 May 2022

The Riches of Rock Art

by John Wilson

A recent book on the history of Native American rock art invites readers to experience both a profound sense of otherness and a fundamental human bond, neither one cancelling out the other. Continue Reading »

6 May 2022

How the Person Became a Self

by Ryan T. Anderson

In Strange New World, Trueman uncovers and describes the underlying social and intellectual forces that explain why his grandfather would have rejected sexual reassignment without a second thought but President Biden can declare that “transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.” Continue Reading »

5 Apr 2022

Agatha Christie, Christian Writer

by John Wilson

In a new book, Jeremy Black challenges patronizing conceptions of Agatha Christie as a “cozy” writer, drawing out the Anglican sensibility that undergirds her work. Continue Reading »

15 Mar 2022

Elite Grifters

by Julius Krein

Few of the 9.9 percent would sacrifice anything for an ideology—but a great many hope to raise money on one. Continue Reading »

20 Jan 2022

American Jesuit

by Tony Abbott

Paul Mankowski’s goal wasn’t to be lauded by his peers or to be personally fulfilled. It was to do his duty to God by selflessly serving an order that rarely hid its scorn for him. Continue Reading »

10 Jan 2022