book reviews

Unnatural Selection

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 February 2012 |

tags: books, sex selective abortion

A book by a pro-choice feminist faces up to an unintended consequence of the West's fertility war.

All Hell Let Loose

Francis Phillips | 30 January 2012 |

tags: warfare, World War II

World War II was not a straightforward death grapple between good and evil, says an eminent military historian.

Lost In Transition: I

Thomas Lickona | 26 January 2012 |

tags: books, emerging adults, moral relativism

What's the matter with today's emerging adults?

Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion

Angela Franks | 17 January 2012 |

tags: books, eugenics, population control, Public Discourse

A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.

Becoming Dickens

Francis Phillips | 12 December 2011 |

tags: Charles Dickens

Not only was England's best-loved novelist a genius, he had an astonishing capacity for hard work and concentration.

Arguably

Francis Phillips | 05 December 2011 |

tags: literature, religion

In his collected essays, the controversial Christopher Hitchens shows that he is incapable of platitudes or jargon.

Statistically significant angels

Zac Alstin | 11 November 2011 |

tags: history, human dignity, warfare

Did the 20th Century really usher in a decline in violence, even with two World Wars?

Obama’s secrets

Thomas C. Reeves | 04 November 2011 |

tags: Barack Obama

Shouldn't we know more about the President of the United States? Some are busy digging.

Burghley: the Elizabethan mastermind

Francis Phillips | 03 November 2011 |

tags: history, Reformation, UK

Brilliant, bold and cold-blooded, Elizabeth's chief statesman dominated his age and shaped the history of England.

Big Porn Inc

Melinda Tankard Reist | 12 October 2011 |

tags: Australia, pornography, women

It is time to get real about the social poison masquerading as “adult entertainment”.

Eugenics and the Firewall

Denyse O’Leary | 04 October 2011 |

tags: Canada, eugenics

Is science always a good thing? Anti-science always a bad one? A walk into a century ago might shed some light.

Ghosts of Empire

Francis Phillips | 03 October 2011 |

tags: British Empire

The son of Ghanaian immigrants examines Britain's colonial legacies.

Willpower

Denyse O’Leary | 29 September 2011 |

tags: free will, psychology

Will power is back in style - for three months, maybe?

Twilight on the moors

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 September 2011 |

tags: feminism, literature, romantic fiction

Why does generation after generation return to a romantic novel written by the daughter of a Victorian clergyman?

The New Holy Wars

G. Tracy Mehan III | 06 September 2011 |

tags: economics, environmentalism, religion

America's leading secular religion was once economics. Has it now become environmentalism?

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Francis Phillips | 18 August 2011 |

tags: children, parenting

An odd mix of common sense and gullibility from an American economist projects a positive message about large families.

“Let us take you away from all this”

Carolyn Moynihan | 15 July 2011 |

tags: marriage, romantic fiction, sex education

British family planners worry about romantic fiction, but haven't they lost the plot themselves?

A Pilgrim in Spain

Francis Phillips | 15 July 2011 |

tags: Spain, travel

A British journalist chronicles a culture disappearing beneath the weight of modernity.

Dark themes in teen literature

Clare Cannon | 23 June 2011 |

tags: dark themes, teenagers

Where do you seek entertainment when you’re through with sentimental romance? In graphic violence, perhaps?

Are we all travelling incognito?

Denyse O'Leary | 21 June 2011 |

tags: crime, law, neuroscience

Does "my brain made me do it" seem like a good excuse in a court of law?

Has science buried God?

William West | 05 May 2011 |

tags: atheism, religion, science

No, far from it, an Oxford professor insists.

The Abbess of Andalusia

Susan Reibel Moore | 03 May 2011 |

tags: Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O’Connor comes across in this biography as earthy and imperfect: funny, shrewd, serene, and devotional.

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