Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters’ Road from Roe to Trump. Steven P. Millies. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2018. There is a familiar English proverb, “The…
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…
Disney’s Lion King was initially, and continues to be in its latest iteration, a rewriting of Hamlet, one that rewrites Shakespeare’s dark tragedy into a myth of…
An Independent Empire: Diplomacy and War in the Making of the United States. Michael S. Kochin and Michael Taylor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. …
In previous essays we have looked at Bob Dylan’s place within the great musical and literary canons of Judeo-Christian civilization. In this third piece, we will now…
In our previous essay, we looked at Bob Dylan with an emphasis on his qualities as a timeless moral leader and musician. Now, we shall consider his…
Hope Amidst Crisis Bob Dylan has only gone and released a new song, his first original music in eight years, right in the heart of the crisis…
This evening I have been asked to analyze the role of William Blount in our nation’s founding. This is a timely assignment, and one which I am…
Introduction It seems a very propitious moment to think about Canadian and Southern history in conjunction given the recent and more or less concurrent bicentennial of the…
The history of Western philosophy may be but a footnote on Plato, but the history of the whole of Western philosophy, theology, politics, science, art, and the…
Justice Stephen Field’s Cooperative Constitution of Liberty: Liberty in Full. Adam M. Carrington. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2017. During his Senate confirmation hearings held to determine…
Here’s our most characteristically philanthropic antidote to the excesses of individualism in the American political tradition: the thought and deeds of our first founders—the Puritans. Philanthropy, of…
From a certain view, the most probing question Alexis de Tocqueville had to answer in Democracy in America is “Why are the Americans so restless in the…
Amid the outrages surrounding the confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, progressive commentator Chris Hayes noted the growing tension between our popular notions about democracy and the undemocratic character…
I During the Presidential Campaign of 1996, in California, President Bill Clinton said that democracy is “government of the people, by the people, and for the people”…
