Reviews

A study of religion that serves two masters fails in predictable fashion

A haunted and haunting journey through uncanny (big) valley 

All of life is a mystery

Academic freedom + romantic individualism = one huge mistake

Homer for our time

Charlie Peacock’s memoir drives deep into evangelicalism’s historic twentieth-century turn

Stay here. Feel this.

When religious nationalism becomes a religion of nationalism

In her new novel, Jamie Quatro turns against facsimile for the sake of reality itself

We need a theology of fiction

What’s so special about the Golden State?

The demands of capital savaged hope

America’s ‘most influential family’ had troubles familiar to most of us today

A past failure of moral judgment sounds an alert today

Yuval Levin aims for institutional reform. He needs a different target.

Can ever-advancing technology be brought under the reign of love?

Hope and quiet walk hand in hand

All you need is love?

Harari synthesizes his synthesis in yet another masterwork

The watcher is not alone

What does it mean to be alive?

Learning from the textbook of the community

The unexpected consolation of the anti-‘Christmas Carol’

The shocking things saints do

Exhortations to patience and hope

The joy of cooking is for kids too

Beyond the baby blues

Don’t be a tool

Vinson Cunningham’s novel tells of more than a mortal God

Stonehenge is not alone

‘Connective labor’ is the real work that lies ahead

An ethicist and world-class athlete reflects on her sport

For this composer, creativity and purity walk hand in hand

Illia Ponomarenko profiles a love that does not flee

Hope wins

An anti-Trump conservative makes his case—and his plea

A novel that chronicles questions beyond our ability to answer

In Peter Brown’s journey, wonder and disquiet led the way to late antiquity 

David Michelson recovers an ancient spiritual practice

Christians and big-time sports: It’s more than ‘Sportianity’

Amy Leach reckons with her heritage while staying faithful to it

On the merits and limits of pro-natal progressivism

In search of political and ecclesial sanity

Megan Basham’s theology is compromised and her history misguided

In Paul Luikart’s stories, raw strength and immense depth work side-by-side

Timothy Snyder’s thin take on freedom reflects larger, more troubling deficits

Further reflections on James Davison Hunter’s ‘Democracy and Solidarity’

Educators could benefit from a very close reading of Calvin and Hobbes

Swanson’s book provides inspiration of the most practical kind

What if John Ames’s sermons on Genesis were gathered in one volume?

Reading Genesis with Marilynne Robinson

Can a people survive when truth is beside the point?

James Davison Hunter turns to ‘culture’ for hope. Can it deliver?

Nixon sought redemption—but on his own terms

Marvin Olasky’s story puts politics in its place

Olasky gives us America’s story through the lens of character, experience, and faith

Jackson Lears takes us where few historians have dared—or even seen

Jackson Lears’s lifelong quarrel with the meritocracy that produced him

It’s not just the Constitution that haunts us

Does belief in an independent moral standard aid or hinder justice?

The historical effects of Jesus Music roll on and on

Wonder, virtue, and more

What both spreadsheets and life stories are telling us

In our harum-scarum political moment, the Via Media beckons

The Eisenhower administration helped arm America to the teeth. Who knew?

Only dead people rest easily in boxes

A new study reveals what evolutionary biology can—and can’t—illumine about fatherhood

Slowing down—but for what?

In her study of ‘the classic’ in art, Rochelle Gurstein summons us back to a common world

Before there was Michael, there was Magic

Who was Flannery O’ Connor? A new biopic’s portrait almost convinces.

What is the basis of Samuel Moyn’s hope?

In Bartsch’s study, surprising insights into both ancient texts and our present circumstance emerge

The field of pediatric mental healthcare needs a better understanding of health

Frat life takes a lucrative—and criminal—turn

The reasons for having children are self-explanatory. Why are we rejecting them?

Wollstonecraft’s relationship to Christian faith defies partisan classification

A memoir of reading, a memoir of joy

Katy Carl’s stories revive and renew the spiritual vision of Flannery O’ Connor

There’s more than one way to deconstruct

Guelzo’s Lincoln clarifies the moral foundations of democratic patriotism in a corrosive age

Allen Guelzo turns to Lincoln to issue a message to America 

Wanted: those with the skill and desire to host difficult conversations

On acknowledging pain without sacrificing hope

The story of abortion and nineteenth-century feminism gets its due

Freedom, eternity, and the question of God

Amid fracture and pain, Tiffany Eberle Kriner finds hope on a farm

A story at the intersection of the OED and our quest for meaning

In Tara Isabella Burton’s new novel, fancy, fantasy, and possibility all point in one direction: home

In Jane Greer, John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins find a worthy companion

The presence of parents throughout the day enriches home and neighborhood alike

In Timothy P. Carney’s book, a complicated question receives an illuminating answer