Book Reviews

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Unlearning Liberty

Denyse O'Leary | 28 November 2012 |

tags: book reviews, freedom of speech, higher education

American universities are discouraging students from expressing controversial views.

The case for loving the disabled

William West | 22 November 2012 |

tags: book reviews, disability

The value of the disabled and the love they inspire is the subject of a new 900-page book, Far From the Tree

The Unintended Reformation

Charles J. Chaput | 16 November 2012 |

tags: book reviews, Reformation, secularism

The long-term effect of the Reformation was to create "the kingdom of whatever", a world where meaning is self-invented and meaninglessness is the public philosophy.

The Victims’ Revolution

Harley J. Sims | 09 November 2012 |

tags: book reviews, higher education

In a new book a gay writer pens a powerful indictment of identity studies as dogmatic cults.

A portrait of the artist as a businessman

G. Tracy Mehan III | 06 November 2012 |

tags: biography, book reviews, heroes, Steve Jobs

Did shrewdness, artistry and obsession make Steve Jobs America's greatest businessman?

Unapologetic

Francis Phillips | 02 November 2012 |

tags: book reviews, Christianity

An unblinking, honest appraisal of what it means to be a believing Christian by a major British writer.

The Casual Vacancy

Harley J. Sims | 22 October 2012 |

tags: book reviews, Harry Potter, literature

J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults is a sprawling, dark, misanthropic tale about the worst kind of Muggles.

Nobel laureate criticises one-child policy

Michael Cook | 15 October 2012 |

tags: book reviews, literature, Nobel Prize, one-child policy

Will the national pride in China's first national to win the Nobel Prize for Literature lead to a reform of the one-child policy?

Poisoned Ivies

Michael W. Hannon | 17 September 2012 |

tags: book reviews, higher education, pornography

Nathan Harden’s “Sex and God at Yale” graphically shows what moral bankruptcy and relativism has produced at America's most elite universities.

The Fix: How addiction is invading our lives

Francis Phillips | 11 September 2012 |

tags: addiction, book reviews, drug abuse, obesity

Addiction to cupcakes, coke, drink or the horses is not a disease, but a choice, says a reformed alcoholic.

Not me

Francis Phillips | 04 September 2012 |

tags: book reviews, Nazism, World War II

Not all Germans bent the knee before the Nazi Baal. This portrait of an ordinary but heroic man shows that some retained their integrity.

A good man

R.J. Snell | 30 August 2012 |

tags: book reviews, human dignity, US

It’s far too easy when bickering about this or that policy to miss the values modeled by good men and women when we disagree on the means.

Books bashing Beijing lose the plot

Constance Kong | 28 August 2012 |

tags: book reviews, China, election 2012

You can't solve America's problems by exaggerating China's.

Green Philosophy

Francis Phillips | 19 July 2012 |

tags: book reviews, environment, philosophy

Roger Scruton suggests how to think seriously about planet Earth.

The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

Denyse O'Leary | 06 July 2012 |

tags: Barack Obama, book reviews

In an age of political messianism The Amateur may represent the last man standing.

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