book review

“Marriage is an inherently negligent activity. It’s like owning a lion. The likelihood of someone getting hurt is very, very high.” Those are some cynical words of wisdom from James Sexton, a divorce attorney who appears on an episode of…

“A man’s what God made you to be, son. So be that, and while you’re at it, you might as well go ahead and be the best one you can be.” So embarks Jack Zulu on his latest quest to protect, defend and lead amidst warring worlds and against an…

The first thing you notice when picking up Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie’s account of surviving an assassination attempt two years ago, is the photo. The iconic image of the legendary writer — eyebrows cocked…

The classical schooling movement has become a source of retrieval, revival even, of so many sources of knowledge and human flourishing abandoned by modernity. The classical Christian school can also renew the rich Christian heritage and…

If you were to watch “Moneyball” today, you might find it quaint. You may recall the premise: In a world before “data-driven decisions” was a cliché, a likable nerd played by Jonah Hill helps craft a baseball roster from a spreadsheet,…

“We have all the time in the world,” James Bond tells his new bride Tracy in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” both moments before and after she dies at the hand of Bond’s nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofield. Unfortunately, like Tracy,…

In the famed 1838 Lyceum Address at the beginning of his political career, Abraham Lincoln warned of the greatest threat facing America. The then-Illinois state representative declared: Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to…

The Detransition Diaries tackles one of the thorniest and most scandalous medical movements of the 21st century — the pervasive, perverse spread of genitalia mutilation and hormone experimentation in America, protected under the umbrella of…

If the Americans Mary Margaret Olohan writes about in Detrans weren’t victims of Democrats, their plight would be all over Hollywood, “60 Minutes,” PBS, and all the rest. There’s more than enough in the stories of young Americans reverting…

Well before most critics started noticing the crises of mental health, alienation, and stunted maturity among members of Generation Z (people now in their teens and twenties), writer and teacher Jeremy Adams discussed all of this and more…