Ross Douthat explores the cultural, economic and political torpor that he thinks has emerged in the United States over the last half-century.

Two recently published books from Oxford University Press address the variegated and multifaced character of sin in the New Testament.

His vivid firsthand experiences on the job as a police officer are recounted extensively in Adam Plantinga's new book.

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.

From 1934: An America editor waited 14 years for his chance, but then he came out swinging against James Joyce.

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.