A film critic’s descent into the madness of insisting audiences cannot tell fantasy from reality ends up being a confession of his own weakness.
Tag: book review
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Former White House Official Examines ‘What Really Matters’
A new book by Timothy S. Goeglein finds the source of our greatest societal woes in the degradation of faith and family.
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‘Culture Care’ on the Edges
A new book presents a healthy picture of what makes for a thriving, generative, and life-affirming culture, but it misses the mark in directing that advice to only one side of the divide.
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Baseball, Malthus, and Time Travel
A new novel about the Cleveland Indians takes some strange time-traveling and ideological tangents that long-suffering Cleveland fans may consider par for the course.
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The Tribal Media Culture of Our Time
A new study of Marshall McLuhan portrays a prophetic thinker who predicted the divisive effect of mass media.
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The Laughable Hypocrisy of Joyce Vance
A left-wing attorney’s new book on “our democracy” relies on vacuous clichés and shopworn slogans rather than a cogent argument.
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Columbia Journalism Dean Celebrates Man Who Beat, “Tortured” Women
The double standards of American journalism are on full display in Jelani Cobb’s new memoir, which praises a mentor who beat women, even while Cobb smeared innocent conservatives accused of the same crime.
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Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
In his new book, Senator Eric Schmitt shows that with determination and intelligent legal arguments, the right can mount an effective legal offense against the left.
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DeMaurice Smith Fumbles in His Turf War
The former head of the NFL Players Association extrapolates personal grievance into an indictment of an entire industry and of America itself.
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Bureaucratic Masters
A recent book by USAID Insider Mark Moyar shows how bureaucracy works in predictable and corrupting ways—especially when it came to sabotaging the agenda of President Trump.
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On the Road and Home Again
Tim Seibel’s Freedom Voyages, Volume 4: Christmastime in Texas takes readers along for the romance of the open road, exploring America’s roots in freedom and community.
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Becoming by Beholding
An important new book demonstrates the ways imagination is essential to Christianity.
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Odysseus Lost
A new novel suggests compelling and realistic ways of thinking about the problems confronted by returning soldiers.
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A Stand-Up Comic Stands Up for God: Evan Sayet Obliterates the Atheist Origin Myth
The humorless left long ago met its match in Evan Sayet. Now the comic is offering the same treatment to militant atheists, packing an intellectual punch with his wit.