Just south of the plaza in Kansas City, there’s a statue of Winston Churchill. He’s sitting on a park bench with his beloved Clementine,...

Why does it feel so good to have books around? For most of the last three years, I’ve had my library in boxes in a storage unit,...

It’s been quite a year for reading. Like 2020, there are times that 2021 has felt like a speedy 6 weeks and a lengthy 3 years. It’s my...

Review: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? by Eric Kaufmann. What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, by Jonathan Last. To whom does...

You’ll probably notice, as I did scheduling this post, that these monthly reviews have almost become themed. Last month, because I’d been...

“One of my favorite vacation indulgences is to read whatever I feel like. Unhooking my reading from any sort of obligation feels like...

I wouldn’t consider myself an overly severe book critic; with books, I’m usually easy to please. But this month I came across several...

March brought a few great books across my path. Here are some of the highlights: Chaos Under Heaven - Josh Rogin After listening to Rogin...

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke This is one of those trips into fiction that leaves me wondering why I don’t read it more often. Piranesi is a...

Is Western civilization losing its morality? Our philosophers appear incapable of achieving anything resembling a consensus on morals,...

There have been so many wonderful articles this year, it's hard to narrow the list down. I've found myself searching more than ever...

Check out the So We Speak podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Recommended The Splendid and the Vile - Larson (link here) Live Not By...

What does it mean to be educated? In a controversial manifesto, lifelong college professor Allan Bloom offers a critique of trends in...

I've come to appreciate the voice and work of Jemar Tisby. While he and I would not agree on every point of our culture's recent social...

In 1998, when the Modern Library solicited readers to select the 100 best English language novels published since 1900, Atlas Shrugged...

“Of, By, and For the Freedmen” - James Hankins and Allen Guelzo, The New Criterion Statue toppling, predictably, knows no bounds. These...

Liberalism in international relations (IR) is the theory that democracy, inalienable natural rights, and diplomatic, economic, and...

Camus begins by posing a simple question: is life worth living? After reading this, most readers (and understandably) roll their eyes and...

In a series of twenty lectures, James gives a thorough analysis of the religious experiences of man. Here is an outline of his main...

Thomas Nagel’s The View from Nowhere is neither an easy nor particularly exciting read, and Nagel raises far more questions than he...