A few years ago, Christian nationalism was not well known, but now headlines regularly remind us of its centrality to the MAGA agenda. Christian nationalism insists that Christian precepts ought to be law and enforced by the state. Advocates believe that the Founding Fathers intended to establish the United States as a democracy whose ultimate…
When I first heard tell of Robert Hudson’s novel The Beautiful Madness of Martin Bonham: A Tale About Loving God, it was described to me as a campus novel. I had my own notions about that particular subgenre as practiced by noteworthy British writers like David Lodge or Malcolm Bradbury. Those somewhat satirical novels typically…
“Don’t tell me what the poets are doin’.” So wrote Gord Downie, the late leader singer of the well-known Canadian band The Tragically Hip, in 1998. Perhaps he didn’t mean this sentiment all that personally or seriously (he also published his own poetry collection with the not so serious title Coke Machine Glow). A serious…
“How was your summer?” is a common enough autumnal question. For the residents of Kelowna, B.C. or Yellowknife, N.W.T the answer might well be “Horrific!” People as far afield as northern Quebec, Greece, Spain, Hawaii or the southern parts of the United States could be expected to reply in similar ways. Wildfires appear to be…
Educated, an autobiographical work by Tara Westover, challenges the reader to consider just what being educated means.
Tom Nichols’ book sports a provocative title, which he qualifies early on: “While expertise isn’t dead, however, it’s in trouble.” It may well be that any regard for expertise is sick unto death.
This book makes one wonder about what we call civilization and a “normal” social life or, for that matter, what leaving it all behind might mean.
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