A Bookish Christmas Gift Guide

by John Wilson

The purpose of this column is to suggest books (some from 2022, some published earlier) that might appeal to various people on your Christmas gift list.  Continue Reading »

2 Dec 2022

How to Stay Orthodox

by Joel Looper

Here we have the question that keeps Trevin Wax and so many evangelical ministers up at night. Why are so few of our people interested in the Bible?  Continue Reading »

24 Nov 2022

Talk About Time

by John Wilson

If you have followed this column for a while, you know that I am unrepentantly fascinated by “time.” Continue Reading »

18 Nov 2022

Piles of Wrinkled Prose

by Peter J. Leithart

It may sound miserable, but desperation and obsession are what make finishing up the most delicious part of the whole book-writing process. Continue Reading »

11 Nov 2022

A Tradition of Anti-Traditionalists

by Mark Bauerlein

What this bias in academia has produced is two generations of college teachers who don’t realize their bias. Continue Reading »

10 Nov 2022

Walker Percy's Questions

by John Wilson

Revisiting Walker Percy's superb book of essays sheds light on questions about evangelical faith today.  Continue Reading »

4 Nov 2022

C. S. Lewis and Contraception

by Michael Ward

C. S. Lewis's writings betray no formal stance on contraception, though a close reading reveals his critical gaze on the topic, prohibited from speech by a sense of prudence.  Continue Reading »

3 Nov 2022

Muddy Morals in The Rings of Power

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

The set-up of The Rings of Power might be good for Twitter engagement, but it makes the stakes of the story unclear, and the drama of the characters' individual choices uncompelling. Continue Reading »

28 Oct 2022

Consensus Reality

by John Wilson

Andrew Klavan's wonderful new installment in the Cameron Winter series subtly warns against the reign of blue-check cultural informers. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2022

Tolstoy’s Moments Beyond the Clock

by Jason M. Baxter

Tolstoy's War and Peace subtly demonstrates how there is more to life than meets a modernist mechanistic worldview.  Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2022