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Monthly Archives: March, 2017

Food City (Joy Santlofer)

Food City, by the late Joy Santlofer, shows us the amazing history of manufacturing, in this case food manufacturing, in New York City.  Nowadays...

Destined to Reign: The Secret to Effortless Success, Wholeness and Victorious Living (Joseph Prince)

This is not the sort of book I normally read.  It is spiritual fluff from a Singaporean megachurch “grace preacher,” Joseph Prince.  But a...

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (Rod Dreher)

The Benedict Option is, as I expected, an outstanding book.  Rod Dreher has definitively shown that he is the Pope Urban of a new...

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (Albert Jay Nock)

Many years ago, I belonged to a debating society, which, among other activities, sponsored formal dinners at which there was much drinking and then...

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (Norman Ohler)

This book failed in the two goals I set for it, either of which I would have accepted.  It did not teach me anything...

The Christians As The Romans Saw Them (Robert Louis Wilken)

We tend to think of Christianity’s global spread as somehow predestined.  A little thought, of course, shows this to be far from the truth. ...

Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture (Anthony Esolen)

Reading this book is like wearing sackcloth and heaping ashes on your head. It certainly brings home to you that things have gone wrong,...

Conserving America? (Patrick Deneen)

This book, a book of essays, is effectively a companion to Ryszard Legutko’s The Demon In Democracy.  The core theme of both books is...

Colloquy: Of The Possibilities of Comity, The Suppression of Speech, Identity, And Humanity

. . . When I played down the social/cultural views as part of "conservative speech and actions" my intent was to avoid a stereotypical...

How An Economy Grows And Why It Crashes (Peter Schiff)

For the past few years, I’ve started thinking of basic economics through the prism of a thought experiment.  This involves starting all analysis by...

The Coming of the Third Reich (Richard Evans)

For the past few months, we have been subjected to a tedious, hysterical stream of comparisons of Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.  As a...