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Reviews
REVIEW: Soulful Pages
Nurturing the spirit (and your inner weirdo) through the written word
REVIEW: The Ballot and the Bible
Kaitlyn Schiess offers what Christians need: a better understanding of scripture and politics
REVIEW: Ancient Advice for the Twenty-First Century
A Habsburg suggests that his family’s strengths could help us all
REVIEW: No Questions, No Lies
Amanda McCrina’s characters glow like embers
Material Girls
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie just wants to be a woman
Barbie . . . and Ken
On finding a way to teach what feminism is . . . and isn’t
REVIEW: Searching for Solidarity
Weigel’s sharp vision begins to fail when he turns to the United States
REVIEW: The Education of Beth Moore
Moore’s memoir sheds light on a moment. It also, quite simply, sheds light.
REVIEW: The Secret Lives of Mothers and Daughters
A mid-20th century novel reaches easily across the decades
REVIEW: Progressives, Old and New
The divide between them is wider than you might suspect
REVIEW: Bernie, Deneen, and a Left-Conservative Solution
What does our moment require? An aristocratic revolution? Or a democratic reformation?
REVIEW: The Regimes They Are A-Changin
Or are they?
REVIEW: Men and Women in Love with God
Renunciation is the pathway to our deepest longing, says Zena Hitz
REVIEW: One Island in Time
What if history really does center on the least, the last, and the lost?
The Unexpected Complications of the Abortion Debate
Review: Roe: The History of a National Obsession by Mary Ziegler. Yale University Press, 2023. 248 pp., $27.00 The first time I heard Mary Ziegler present her scholarship on abortion was more than a decade ago, before she had published […]
REVIEW: Nothing but Blue Skies?
We need eye-opening speculative fiction more than ever
What I am reading: A new book on Thoreau the worker
Review: Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle. Princeton University Press, 2023. 232 pp., $27.95 For three years in the 1920s, students and faculty at the University of Mississippi who needed to […]
REVIEW: A Brave New FeminismÂ
Human wellbeing requires a reassessment of “progress”
REVIEW: The Making of Ex-Christian America
Deconversion is the story of a generation. But other stories are already in the offing.