Monthly Archives: February, 2017

Strangers In A Strange Land (Charles Chaput)

This is a self-help book.  I don’t mean it’s to be found in the bookstore under the sign “Self-Help,” where people gather to remake...

Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (Justin Marozzi)

I, and many others, have been exhausted in recent months by the nonstop political noise machine. So I pulled this book off the shelf,...

The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Robert Gordon)

This book is just not very good.  I was excited to read The Rise and Fall of American Growth; it was extensively and positively...

The Weapon Shops of Isher (A.E. van Vogt)

 The right to be armed is the right to be free!  This call, like the battle cry of the Archangel Michael, Who is like...

The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order: 1964-1980 (Steven Hayward)

I read The Age of Reagan, the first volume of a massive two-volume biography, because I wanted to learn more about Ronald Reagan.  I...

The Golden Key (George MacDonald)

This is a very famous book, not quite children’s fairy tale and not quite adult allegory—or rather, it’s both, and more.  As fairy tale...

The Almost Nearly Perfect People (Michael Booth)

Published in 2014, this book has an eerie vibe, redolent of a past that seems distant but really was just yesterday.  Intertwined with gentle...

Colloquy: On Christian Duty As Related To President Trump’s Executive Order On Immigration

The topic here is (as phrased by me; feel free to correct!), “what is the duty of individual Christians, in their personal lives and...

The Great Heresies (Hilaire Belloc)

For no reason that is fully clear to me, I have always been fascinated by heresies.  It matters to me what the difference between...

Colloquy: On Global Warming

While I personally prefer beer, this does sound like an interesting book. Responding to your argument about global warming “Alarmists” is a longer discussion...

Nobody Likes A Goblin (Ben Hatke)

This is an outstanding children’s book.  We got it for our children for Christmas and it became an instant favorite.  It’s a clever instantiation...