Book Review

David Bentley Hart and the Joys of Playful Writing

Not all writing must be for the purpose of conveying information or persuading. Instead, there is great joy to be had in writing which serves no other purpose than to delight.

Should Christians Fight Culture Wars?: Review of Nigel Biggar’s “The New Dark Age”

Nigel Biggar’s latest book is entitled “The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars,” but its subtitle might as well be “Why Christians Must Win the Culture Wars”

Just War and Hybrid Conflict

The latest entry in the Gabriel Allon spy series by Daniel Silva takes on themes of gray zone conflict in modern warfare

The Sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline

“The Nord Stream Conspiracy,” a new book by Bojan Pancevski, describes how a group of Ukrainian military and intelligence officers worked with civilian volunteers to engineer an audacious attack

A Tale of Two Vances?

J.D. Vance in “Communion” comes across as a nuanced, empathetic, and thoughtful Christian, traits that often seem incongruous with his rhetoric as vice president.

A Christian Approach to International Relations: Robert Joustra’s “Christ & Covenant in Global Politics”

In his new book, Calvin University professor Robert Joustra sets out to develop a distinctively Christian approach to global politics on its own terms, one that neither confines religion to the private sphere nor baptizes contemporary political ideologies

For Western Civilization, Allen Guelzo & James Hankins Ask “Where Next?”

A new collection of essays from “The New Criterion,” edited by Roger Kimball, seeks to define Western civilization and ask the critical question: Where next?

Secularism: Universal to the West, Provincial to Everywhere Else

Kevin Flatt’s new book, “Secularization, Social Order, and World History” argues that the decline of religion is not an inevitable quasi-Hegelian phenomenon, but a particular

“The Way That Abides Forever”: David Bentley Hart’s New Translation of the Tao Te Ching

David Bentley Hart’s new translation of the Tao Te Ching, an ancient Chinese text dating to the fourth century BC, reveals an vision of wisdom, virtue, and the Way that resonates with Christianity