reviews
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…
Is No One Good but God? – Religion & Liberty Online
If your dog and a stranger were both drowning, who would you save first? Nationally renowned radio host and bestselling author Dennis Prager often poses this question to his audiences, and he typically gets a pretty depressing answer. Generally,…
The Honor of General Stanley McChrystal – Religion & Liberty Online
On June 22, 2010, Michael Hastings published in Rolling Stone magazine an essay entitled “The Runaway General,” a profile of General Stanley McChrystal and his leadership of American troops in Afghanistan. The next day President Obama held a…
Harvey Mansfield’s Rational Control – Religion & Liberty Online
It’s difficult to avoid terms such as “legendary” and “distinguished” when referring to Harvey Mansfield’s long career at Harvard University. Of course, his reputation is based on more than his famous resistance to grade inflation or his barbed…
Seeking God at the End of the World – Religion & Liberty Online
Is the end of the world drawing nigh? This is the question at the heart of Christopher Beha’s 2020 blockbuster novel, The Index of Self-Destructive Acts. A deranged-looking street preacher appears at the beginning of the novel, predicting the…
What Exactly Are the ‘Common Goods’? – Religion & Liberty Online
At some point in their economics curriculum, every undergraduate will learn the “guns and butter” model of trade. The idea is simple: Countries have limited resources and can devote them either to military production or to consumer goods. Moving…
How Frankenstein and The Bride! Make the Battle of the Sexes Worse – Religion & Liberty Online
Adapting Merry Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein is practically a tradition in Hollywood. As is the freedom in adapting it: Consider the Universal Monsters’ classic, which turned the original’s well-spoken creation of mad scientist Victor…
The Teacher as Revolutionary – Religion & Liberty Online
Michael S. Rose’s The Subversive Art of a Classical Education: Reclaiming the Mind in an Age of Speed, Screens, and Skill-Drills is the latest addition to the growing genre of books about classical education. Rose combines theory and practice to…