Two Cheers for Charles Taylor and Friends
by Carl R. TruemanCharles Taylor’s latest work, co-authored with Patrizia Nanz and Madeleine Beaubien, details how Western democracy is in serious trouble. Continue Reading »
Marriage of Genius
by Helen AndrewsIn the summer of 1970, Elizabeth Hardwick may have been the best nonfiction prose writer in America, just as Jim Hines was the fastest man alive and Joe Frazier was the heavyweight champion of the world. She was the queen mother of the New York Review of Books, one of its four cofounders and . . . . Continue Reading »
Briefly Noted
by VariousIn The River of the Immaculate Conception, James Matthew Wilson confirms his vocation as a public poet. Commissioned by the Benedict XVI Institute, this poem sequence of seven parts leads us through the lives of St. Juan Diego, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, and Père Marquette, with interludes on . . . . Continue Reading »
Heaven in History
by Peter J. LeithartA review of N. T. Wright’s History and Eschatology: Jesus and the Promise of Natural Theology. Continue Reading »
Defining “Evangelical”
by Samuel D. JamesA review of Thomas S. Kidd’s Who Is an Evangelical?: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Continue Reading »
On Wounded Shepherds
by Francis X. MaierA review of Austen Ivereigh’s latest book, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
A Not-So-Shaggy Dog Story
by John WilsonA novelist's pen name hides a playful detective tale. Continue Reading »
Chimpanzee Disaster
by Hannah NiemeierThe residents of Royal, Nebraska, loved their zoo to death. Continue Reading »
An Irish Dante
by Moriah SpecialeThe Five Quintets by micheal o’siadhail baylor, 381 pages, $34.95 Sartre famously wrote that “hell is other people,” but for the poet Micheal O’Siadhail, hell is a highly specific group of other people. Among the damned are Franz Kafka, Karl Marx, and—you guessed it—a certain . . . . Continue Reading »
Wendell Berry Goes to School
by John MurdockIf Baker and Bilbro succeed, students and professors will emerge believing that the goal is not to obtain a “good job” far away but to become a rooted, whole person. Continue Reading »
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