Mark Bauerlein on Literary Theory
by R. R. RenoMark Bauerlein joins R. R. Reno to talk about the time when deconstruction reigned supreme. Continue Reading »
Mark Bauerlein joins R. R. Reno to talk about the time when deconstruction reigned supreme. Continue Reading »
Julia Yost joins editor R. R. Reno to talk about how the language of trauma has infected our public conversation. Continue Reading »
In this episode, George Weigel discusses his latest book, The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform. Continue Reading »
David Bromwich discusses his book American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us. Continue Reading »
Timothy Goeglein discusses his book American Restoration: How Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice Can Heal Our Nation. Continue Reading »
Featuring Father Thomas Guarino on his book The Disputed Teachings of Vatican II: Continuity and Reversal in Catholic Doctrine. Continue Reading »
Featuring First Things editor R. R. Reno on the books that formed him in youth. Continue Reading »
This business of signing the inside covers of books is both charming and macabre. People die; books live forever. Scrawling on a flyleaf is a down payment on immortality. Think of me, it says. Memento mori. Continue Reading »
I am reading The Blondelian Synthesis: A Study of the Influence of German Philosophical Sources on the Formation of Blondel's Method and Thought by John McNeil. It's a really fine, detailed scholarly study of the influence of Spinoza, Kant, Schelling and Hegel on Blondel. I was enjoying it so much I googled John McNeil to find out if he wrote anything else! Continue Reading »
Over Labor Day weekend I sat down with two books by Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History and Christian Human Rights. Both recount the emergence of human rights as a distinctive moral and political idea in the twentieth century.