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American Unreason
Reading Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason made me very uncomfortable. The book chronicles the history of anti-intellectualism in American culture from the Revolutionary period to the present. It’s an excellent book, well-written, carefully researched, intelligent, and witty. Jacoby, a self-avowed secularist and freethinker, is evenhanded in her treatment of what she calls “junk…
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Uncompromised Faith
I’ve been reading S. Michael Craven’s newsletters for a long time now. He takes on thorny and contentious issues in Christianity and writes about them with thoughtful clarity and compassion. His first book, Uncompromised Faith: Overcoming Our Culturalized Christianity, shows the same intelligence and passion I have come to expect from his other writings. Despite…
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The Road
What lingers with me after reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, is not the tenderness of love between father and son, nor the enduring hopefulness of the boy. No, it is the haunting descriptions of people kept like cattle to be eaten by other people. The faceless, nameless people cowed into a cellar kept drifting through…
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