REVIEW: Law & Leviathan – Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule (Belknap Press, 2020)
How should the leviathan be tamed? Sunstein and Vermeule argue that, by realistic standards, it already is. It just has to stay that way.
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Books
REVIEW: Alms for Oblivion – Peter Kemp (1961; Mystery Grove, 2020)
Across these books is the arc of an English law student who, with a certain ideological vigor, abandons his comfortable life in the Isles to throw himself into the dangers, horrors, adventures, and camaraderie of war. But it is a story that has two distinct levels to it: Kemp’s personal trials comprise the obvious tale, but he is also a person active in the machinations of history.
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REVIEW: No Colours or Crest – Peter Kemp (1958; Mystery Grove Publishing, 2020)
From the frozen barracks in northern England and the stony shores of France, to the treacherous mountains of Albania and the snowy tracts of Poland: No Colours or Crest details Kemp’s assignments as part-Commando, part-insurgent across the fields of some of World War II’s least-talked about regions.
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REVIEW: Logos Rising – E. Michael Jones (Fidelity Press, 2020)
New review of E. Michael Jones’ book Logos Rising – a study of men, reality, God, Logos, and the transcendent order of the world.
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REVIEW: In Defence of the Roman Mass – Father Raymond Dulac (2018; Te Deum Press, 2020)
When Pope St. John XXIII called an opening to the Second Vatican Council in 1962, both the Church and the
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REVIEW: Mine Were of Trouble – Peter Kemp (1957; Mystery Grove Publishing, 2020)
Peter Kemp’s first war memoir, detailing his experiences fighting for the nationalists during the Spanish Civil War, Mine Were of Trouble offers a unique glimpse into a conflict that is startlingly relevant to today.
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REVIEW: Catholic Republic – Timothy Gordon (Sophia Institute Press, 2019)
There are some books you get knowing ahead of time that you’re going to disagree with their theses, but they
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REVIEW: My Prayer Book – Rev. Father F. X. Lasance (1908)
We return again to the work of Father Lasance, continuing our romp through the material of his available in English
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REVIEW: The Age of Entitlement – Christopher Caldwell (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
It’s 2020. We know that America has deep, possibly irreconcilable divisions across moral lines that they’ve severed families. We saw
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REVIEW: The Fr. Lasance Blessed Sacrament Prayerbook [Revisited]
Last year, I reviewed the Blessed Sacrament Prayer Book of Father Lasance, an exhaustive collection of prayers, meditations, and ejaculations
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