Book Review

Review of Lyndal Roper’s “Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War”

The German Peasants’ War of 1524-25, seen by communists as a proto-Marxist uprising, is perhaps the least understood episode of the Reformation

“Like a Western Suit that Doesn’t Fit”: Shūsaku Endō, Christianity, and Japan

A newly discovered novella by Shūsaku Endō, author of “Silence,” sheds light on the author’s conflicted personal life

Spirits in Tension: Liberty and Religion 

Contra the idea of Christian nationalism, SBTS professor John Wilsey argues that America has always held religion and liberty together in tension

Putin’s Perpetual Political Theater and “The Wizard of the Kremlin”

A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives

Ambassador John Sullivan’s “Midnight in Moscow” and the Future of the War in Ukraine

Former US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan’s account of his time in Moscow during and after the invasion of Ukraine is essential reading for understanding the lead-up to Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine

Labor Unions, Roman History, and the Quest for Community

While organized labor may seem to be a distinctively modern phenomenon, recent scholarship points to the historical prevalence of such associations across the ancient Mediterranean, from Rome to Egypt

The Christian Realism of Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Sense of America” captures the political contradictions and controversies that have characterized the last decade as few other books have

Uneasy about Citizenship

While a useful primer on intra-evangelical political disagreements, “Uneasy Citizenship” suffers from the same recency bias that seems to preclude almost all Protestant intellectuals from engaging with political theology before WWII

We Shape Our Words, Then They Shape Us: The Role of Metaphor in US Foreign Policy

A new book explores the dynamic relationship between presidential rhetoric on foreign policy and the goals America seeks to accomplish abroad