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The Left Is Right About the Bible
"Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just...
Words That Made a Nation: New and Notable Books
With Constitution Day taking place this month, a few books on the Founding of our republic are worth notice. Is the U.S. Constitution a democratic instrument? Some scholars argue that...
Odysseus in America
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Patrick Deneen joins in to discuss his recent book, American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals...
How Politics Ruined the Classroom
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Neil Gross joins in to discuss his recent book, What Happened to College?: How Politics Broke...
The Cathedral as Heaven
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Bishop Robert Barron joins in to discuss his new film, Heaven in Stone and Glass. Watch...
Crisis on the Campus
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Kevin D. Roberts joins in to discuss his recently edited book, Higher Education in America: It’s...
Love in a Godless Age
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Ralph C. Hancock joins in to discuss his recent book, Love and Virtue in a Secular...
Old Wisdom, New Distractions: New and Notable Books
As the mores of daily life in the twenty-first century change every month or two with the advent of the next digital novelty, lots of books on how to...
How the Press Lost Public Trust
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Tara Henley joins in to discuss her recent book, The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs...
The Dot, The Dash, and Everything Between
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Florence Hazrat joins in to discuss her recent book, On the Mark: From Periods to...
A Curriculum for National Success
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Christopher Perrin joins in to discuss Classical Academic Press. The conversation is embedded below. For...
How to Destroy Your Country’s Future
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Bella d’Abrera joins in to discuss her recent book, Mindless: How the Education System is...
On the Edge of America
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Michael Anton joins in to discuss his recent book, Dispatches from the Late Republic: The...
Here Comes Utopia
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Seth Barron joins in to discuss his recent book, Weaponized: The Left’s Capture and Destruction...
How to Destroy the Black Family
In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Delano Squires joins in to discuss his recent book, The Vanishing Black Family: How Welfare...
