In ‘White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America’ by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, the disturbing and tragic tale is told of indentured servitude.More
Category Archives: Books
Book Review: ‘China: The Novel’ by Edward Rutherford
Both the tone and tenor of Rutherford’s take feel like a product of the kind of thinking in the West which is du jour these days, and I don’t mean that in a good way. More
Book Review: ‘O Jerusalem’ by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
The events of 1948 which resulted in the formation of Israel are still playing out. Here is as an island of Jewish and Western thought in an ocean of non-Western civilization.More
Book Review: ‘The Plantagenets’ by Dan Jones
It is easy to see in reading Dan Jones’ work here how the stream of thought ran its course that the king cannot just declare traitor anyone who seeks to provide accountability to him. More
Book Review: ‘Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered’ by Russell Kirk
Arguing for ordered liberty, Burke understood that human freedom cannot be unlimited and abstract. It has to be tempered with reasonable restraint in order to live to a fruitful end.More
Book Review: ‘The Freedom of the Will’ by Jonathan Edwards
As Edwards explains, only God is sovereign. And therefore only God is free in the purest and fullest sense of what we could possibly mean by ‘freedom.’ More
Book Review: ‘The Magna Carta of Humanity’ by Os Guinness
Like Alexis de Tocqueville, Os Guinness is a figure I have heard quoted often in books and interviews for several years but never read directly myself – until now. More
Book Review: ‘How Should We Then Live’ by Francis A. Schaeffer
Here Schaeffer tells us the story of how our beliefs about God and ourselves have influenced the kind of art we enjoy, how we organize ourselves, and how we govern and are governed in turn.More
Book Review: ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville
What is so refreshing about it all is that Tocqueville engages in neither hero worship of early America, nor in the demonizing revisionism which is so typical of our day. More
Book Review: ‘The Fourth Turning’ by Neil Howe and William Strauss
Instead of viewing history as linear – either toward invariably greater human progress or else certain destruction – what if history is cyclical along a fairly set pattern?More