Review 7 April 2013
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Eliot’s Politics in Context
Benjamin G. Lockerd
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Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia: Literary Modernism and Politics, by Leon Surette. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011. Cloth, xv + 363 pages. $59.95.
Review 31 March 2013
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Tolerance that Swallows Itself
James Kalb
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The Intolerance of Tolerance
by D. A. Carson.
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012.
Cloth, 196 pages, $24.
Review 31 March 2013
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Debunking the Demographers
Allen Mendenhall
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What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster by Jonathan V. Last. Encounter Books, 2013,
Hardcover, 240 pages, $24.
Review 24 March 2013
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Beyond the End of History: Fukuyama’s Myopic Vision
Glen Austin Sproviero
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
Hardcover, 608 pages, $35.
Review 24 March 2013
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The Left Bank in the Vieux Carré
Charles Jeanfreau
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Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s by John Shelton Reed, LSU Press, 2012, Hardcover, 320 pp., $38.
Review 18 March 2013
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Chronicling the Conservatives
Derek Turner
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The Conservatives—A History
by Robin Harris. London: Bantam Press, 2012, hb., 632pps., £30.
Review 17 March 2013
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Morality and Order
A. W. R. Hawkins
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Redeeming the Time by Russell Kirk, ed. Jeffrey O. Nelson. Wilmington, ISI Books, 1996. Cloth, 321 pages, $24.95.
Review 10 March 2013
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Churchill After the War
Francis P. Sempa
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid. Little Brown and Company, 2012. Hardcover, 1182 pages, $40.
Review 10 March 2013
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Uncle Walt and the Lost Era of Network News
John C. Chalberg
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Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley.
HarperCollins, 2012. Hardcover, 819 pages, $35.
Review 3 March 2013
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The Perils of Neutrality
Bruce P. Frohnen
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The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy and on Catholic Social Teaching
by Martin Rhonheimer, edited by William F. Murphy, Jr. Catholic University of America Press, 2013.
Paperback, 560 pages, $45.
Review 3 March 2013
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Capitalism vs. the Free Market
Ivan Pongracic
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The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You
edited by Tom Palmer.
Jameson Books, Inc., 2011.
Paperback, 129 pp., $8.95.
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy
by Robert Sirico.
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012.
Hardcover, 213 pp. $27.95.
Review 24 February 2013
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Tolkien and the Great Tale
Adam Schwartz
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The Christian World of ‘The Hobbit’
by Devin Brown.
Abingdon Press, 2012
193 pp., $14.99 paper.
Best of the Bookman 24 February 2013
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Farming, Community, and Culture
N. Alan Cornett
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community, by Wendell Berry. Pantheon Books 1994, 208 pp., $20, cloth; $10 paper.
Essay 21 February 2013
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Marital Distress and the 2012 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
Eugene Schlanger
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Sharon Olds’s “marital distress poetry” was awarded the 2012 T. S. Eliot Prize. The Wall Street Poet looks for some cultural or poetic significance in Olds’s verse.
The moral imagination is the principal possession that man does not share with the beasts. It is man’s power to perceive ethical truth, abiding law, in the seeming chaos of many events. Without the moral imagination, man would live merely day to day, or rather moment to moment, as dogs do. It is the strange faculty—inexplicable if men are assumed to have an animal nature only—of discerning greatness, justice, and order, beyond the bars of appetite and self-interest.
Russell Kirk, Enemies of the Permanent Things, 1969
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