Resisting a Secularized American Founding
Did America Have a Christian Founding? Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth. Mark David Hall. Nashville: Nelson Books, 2019. The argument over what it means to…
God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy’s Case Against the American Revolution
God Against the Revolution: The Loyalist Clergy's Case Against the American Revolution. Gregg L. Frazer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2018. Twitter, one hardly needs…
Review of Religion in the Public Square
Religion in the Public Square: Sheen, King, Falwell. James M. Patterson. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Patrick Deneen’s provocative book, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale, 2018), argues…
Imagination and Environmental Political Thought: The Aftermath of Thoreau
Environmentalism can be seen as a very practical and passionate response to the many abuses leveled by humanity on the non-human world. Polluted water and air, species…
Friendship and “Filthy” Politics in Plato and Aristotle
The Italian philosopher and statesman, Benedetto Croce, once wrote that, “politics and filth are so frequently identified in the ordinary conversation of people that the thoughtful person…