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Durham Cathedral, medieval, Christianity
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The Foundations of Faith

Nicholas Orme has had the original idea of treating England's great cathedrals as a single class of cultural architecture, encapsulating the English religious imagination at its most expansive.

David Duke, Rush Limbaugh, Sister Souljah, Randy Weaver, John Gotti, Rudy Giuliani, Chronicles columnists, Samuel T. Francis, Joseph Sobran, Murray Rothbard, Patrick J. Buchanan,
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Can’t Keep A Great Man Down

John Ganz focuses on American cultural and political wars during the hectic year 1992, when two maverick candidates, Patrick J. Buchanan and H. Ross Perot, rocked the previously staid presidency of George H. W. Bush.

Books in Brief: September 2024
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Books in Brief: September 2024

A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China, by Dale C. Copeland (Princeton University Press; 504 pp., $31.30). Woodrow Wilson’s April 1917 plea to Congress to “make the world safe for democracy” launched America on a futile messianic crusade that plagues us even today. Nowadays, “safe” includes...

Richard Dawkins, New Atheism debunked
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Doubting Dawkins

Coming to Faith Through Dawkins provides a dozen accounts of former adherents of the Dawkinsian view who became apostates precisely because they looked closely at that dogma.

Books in Brief: August 2024
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Books in Brief: August 2024

Short reviews of New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God by José Carlos González-Hurtado, and The Paleolibertarian Guide to Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & the Aberrant Economy by Ilana Mercer.

From Immigrant to Public Intellectual, The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics
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Books in Brief: February 2024

Short reviews of From Immigrant to Public Intellectual, by Murray Sabrin, and The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics, by Kody Cooper and Justin Dyer.

Nigel Beggar, Anglican priest, theologian, ethicist
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The Empire State of Mind

Nigel Biggar's sophisticated history of British colonialism does not ignore the many benefits reaped by the recipients. His work is relevant to all Western nations, now threatened by faux radicals.

A Conservative Self-Critique
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A Conservative Self-Critique

The Up From Conservatism anthology contains some insightful, biting critiques of the conservative establishment, but its contributors are part of an elite class themselves, with their own sacred cows and taboos.

What We Are Reading: January 2024
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What We Are Reading: January 2024

Short reviews of Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944, by Franz Neumann; Counter Wokecraft, by Charles Pincourt and James Lindsay; Love and the Genders by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn; and, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson.

Books in Brief: January 2024
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Books in Brief: January 2024

Short reviews of The Making of White American Identity by Ron Everyman, The Weaponization of Loneliness by Stella Morabito, and The Significance of the German Revolution by Edgar Julius Jung.