I started and finished listening to five audiobooks while I worked over the weekend, for instance. And now that I am feeling a bit more rested and settled, I should tell you about it.More
Category Archives: Books
A Word About Natural Rights, Old Books, Free Speech, and Hurricane Ian
It seems Dr. Biggar has only two categories for rights – the legal rights granted by civil governments, and moral appeals from the governed to be granted more rights by their same.More
‘Paul, A Biography,’ by N.T. Wright, and The State of Theology Report 2022
Finishing ‘Paul: A Biography’ by N.T. Wright last week, I want to tell you all about it. Rest assured, I have more to say than just that it was “so good and super convicting.”More
Three Years in Colorado, Plutarch’s Life of Camillus, and Credentialism
We would all be better off if fewer of us went to college, and more of us read our Bibles and Plutarch instead, and then became conversant with one another about what both can teach us.More
FBI Agent Timothy Thibault, Killer Robots, and the Trouble with Reading Great Books
Perhaps if more of us were reading great books, then, we would catch more quickly threats in various spheres in a more personal and preventative way, not always merely reacting.More
Book Review: ‘Battle for the American Mind’ by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin
The prescription in ‘Battle for the American Mind’ is a return to the foundation of Western Civilization – Classical Christian Education. Its case is well-argued and needful.More
Book Review: ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ by Mark A. Noll
Why have so many American evangelicals in recent decades not invested more in intellectual pursuits? Mark A. Noll here in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind’ wants to know.More
Book Review: ‘Nudge’ by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
The cure for what ails American society and the world is not more nudges. The solution is for the likes of Thaler and Sunstein to stop manipulating the Nudged Enough Already.More
‘The Histories of Polybius,’ Watching ‘300’ with my Sons, and Mark O’Leary Gives Advice
Polybius being a Greek in Rome, his going to such lengths to chronicle the rise of Rome and the fall of the Greeks itself tells how important these things were to both peoples.More
Book Review: ‘Retrieving Augustine’s Doctrine of Creation’ by Gavin Ortlund
Where Ortlund cites Augustine to urge greater humility in debates about the meaning of Genesis 1-3, he comes back often to Young Earth Creationism adherents especially. More