Book Review

Why Nations and National Self-Interest Are the Building Blocks of International Order

Mark Amstutz’s new book argues that American Christians should recognize both the indispensability of the US for international stability and that it is in America’s interest to be a leader internationally

Can America Be Exceptional Again?

Dennis Ross’s new book locates the roots of US foreign policy failures in a loss of our collective identity—and it’s not clear we can get it back.

True Liberty Requires Limits: Review of Brad Littlejohn’s ‘Called to Freedom’

Brad Littlejohn’s new book reminds us that the heights of human potential are only reachable when we accept that life must come with limits on our liberties

Is There a Right to Immigrate? Review of “Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice”

Christians are called to love all persons, but this does not justify evading border regulations.

Foreign Policy ProvCast, Episode 85 | Early America: Christian Republic—or Republic of Christians?

In his recent book “Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War” (Davenant, 2024), Miles Smith…

The Technological Republic

What caused the recent sharp rightward shift of so many Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs? In their new book, Alex Karp and Nicholas Zaminska explain the new philosophies that inform the “tech right”

Putting Natural Law to Work: Review of Hopeful Realism

A trio of Protestant Christian political science professors argue that evangelicals should be more aware of and attuned to the natural law tradition

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