Leslie Woodcock Tentler’s new book is both a rigorous and laudable effort to cure American Catholics of the illusion that our desires have no history.
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Review: Ross Douthat on our state of stagnation
Ross Douthat explores the cultural, economic and political torpor that he thinks has emerged in the United States over the last half-century.
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Review: An insider’s look at cop culture
His vivid firsthand experiences on the job as a police officer are recounted extensively in Adam Plantinga’s new book.
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Review: When musicians go from outliers to icons
Ted Gioia’s new treatise on music and musicians covers everything from the Big Bang to gangsta rap.
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Review: When a dream of equality is deferred
Eric Foner’s new book tells a sad story: how the U.S. Supreme Court, many Southern states and Congress delayed the implementation of three important constitutional amendments for nearly a century.
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Review: A plague’s worldwide devastation
Lawrence Wright’s new thriller deals with the effects of a killer pandemic.
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Review: The continued fight to eradicate clergy sex abuse
Nualy Kenny’s new book on clergy sex abuse reminds us there are solutions to this deep crisis that need to be implemented with urgency.
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Review: A revolutionary history
Matthew Lockwood’s new book shows how the events of the 1770s had reverberations far beyond American shores.
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Review: Arguing with Timothy Radcliffe
How can Christian faith be made sensible to our contemporaries?
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Review: Stranger than fiction
A spy story that sounds like a novel, but is true to life.