reviews
Our Glorious Founding Document – Religion & Liberty Online
Bad history books litter the shelves of classrooms, bookstores, and libraries everywhere. Beyond mere factual inaccuracies, bad works of history also pretend to neutrality, prefer a Marxist materialism to messy human motivations, and misalign…
Evolution and Our Dependence on a Creator – Religion & Liberty Online
“All these things around us have been seminally and primordially created in the very fabric, as it were, or texture of the elements; but they require the right occasion actually to emerge into being.”—Augustine This line from the great…
Washington the Great – Religion & Liberty Online
What made George Washington so great? This is the question asked by H.W. Brands in the last chapter of his new biography, American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington. If one made a list of qualities that make an effective leader,…
Practical Action in an Age of Decadence – Religion & Liberty Online
Roger Scruton often wrote of oikophobia, the phenomenon, so prevalent in the modern West, of distrusting one’s own home, society, and cultural inheritance. The culture of repudiation is one-directional, however, valorizing “the other” at the…
C.S. Lewis and the Dance of Masculine and Feminine – Religion & Liberty Online
Debates about gender within and without the Church tend to operate on a hidden fear: If gender is real in some way, then that might lead to an artificially rigid understanding of gender roles—for example, women must stay in the kitchen and men…
The Millennia-Long History of American Liberty – Religion & Liberty Online
One of the first hurdles in designing a course is assigning readings. Digital databases, book scanning, and ebooks have empowered teachers to assemble any combination of chapters, journals, and primary sources, but having so many choices can be…
Two Heads Without Bodies, or Don’t Believe the Science – Religion & Liberty Online
Are scientific advancements always ethically neutral? The ethics, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder. Consider this experiment—fictional rather than real—of keeping alive a head severed from its body. In 1925, Alexander Belyaev, a sci-fi…
A Portrait in Humility – Religion & Liberty Online
The first full-length biography of the Supreme Court justice presents us with a quiet man of clarity and consistency more focused on the law than on obtaining celebrity status. Read More… I was finishing my last year of law school when the…
What Matters to Cultural Conservatives – Religion & Liberty Online
There are many different kinds of conservatism—saber-rattling neoconservatives, backward-looking paleoconservatives, free-wheeling libertarians, to name a few. Ronald Reagan fused them into a winning coalition rooted in a common consensus…
Trueman Among the Pagans, or Jonah in Nineveh – Religion & Liberty Online
Carl Trueman’s latest exploration of what our abandonment of God is doing to our humanity may sound familiar, but it will be news to his new, larger, and secular audience. Read More… Carl Trueman is a prophet of late modernity. Not a prophet in…