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Noah WingLiteratureBooks
Mary Shelley saw the Enlightenment more clearly than her husband, Percy, and what she saw scared her.
Casey ShuttGenderBooks
Abigail Favale's "The Genesis of Gender" is a much-needed model for how Christians can and should engage with contemporary gender ideology.
Jake MeadorFamilyBooksCommunities
I had a couple people ask about my thoughts on some of the pushback against my thread last week, particularly as it relates to Dr. Robinson’s essays here. There are two separate issues so I’m going to try to take […]
Bonnie KristianFeaturedBooksIssue 4
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2022, 340 pp., $29.95 pb. Hitler hath
Jake MeadorChurchBooks
Endorse a book you didn’t actually read. Capitulate to a Twitter mob demanding you retract your endorsement for the book that you didn’t actually read. Call the book’s argument, which is almost identical to things you’ve said in your own […]
Jake MeadorBooks
Luke has written an obit for the Pope Emeritus over on the main site. So I have little to add to that. I may have something further to say related to Benedict’s passing later, but for now I’m curious to […]
Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBooks
Gray: If Positivism is the chief source of the twentieth century’s most powerful secular religions it is partly through its impact on the social sciences. For Positivists, modernity is the transformation of the world by the use of scientific knowledge. […]
Jake MeadorChurchBooks
I am a former L’Abri student. Every time I visit Rochester, MN, I make a point of visiting Dr. Schaeffer’s grave. He’s something of a spiritual grandfather to me. My most treasured book in my home library is a copy […]
Jake MeadorBooks
From Screwtape Letters: Let him begin by treating the Patriotism or the Pacifism as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of the partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and […]
Jake MeadorEconomicsBooksJulius NyererePan-Africanism
Continuing: The production of wealth, whether by primitive or modern methods, requires three things. First, land. God has given us the land, and it is from the land that we get the raw materials which we reshape to meet our […]
Jake MeadorHistoryEconomicsBooks
Gray: The core of Logical Positivism was the development of a scientific worldview. Going further than Saint-Simon and Comte, the Logical Positivists declared that only the verifiable propositions of science have meaning: strictly speaking, religion, metaphysics and morality are nonsense. […]
Jake MeadorHistoryBooks
John Gray: The roots of the Soviet system were in the Enlightenment’s most utopian dreams. Lenin never gave up the belief that, after a period of revolutionary terror, the state would be abolished. Trotsky defended the taking and killing of […]