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Category Archives: Society and Culture
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure© 2018 Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt352 pages There was a time when I was a youthful idealist, full of love and … Continue reading
Why We Hate and How to Heal
Them: Why We Hate and How to Heal © 2018 Ben Sasse 272 pages The tenor of civil ‘discourse’ in America today is disheartening and distressful, in part for at least over a decade there has been little discourse at all, … Continue reading
Brave New World Revisited
Brave New World Revisited© 1958 Aldhous Huxley144 pages Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1931) transported readers to a deeply creepy nightmare-vision of the future, in which man had disappeared as an independent being, instead becoming the raw materials for a new, … Continue reading
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Tagged social criticism, Society and Culture, technology, Technology and Society
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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination Of Your Child
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination Of Your Child © 2010 Anthony Esolen 256 pages In the spirit of The Screwtape Letters comes this, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination Of Your Child. Anthony Esolen opens by observing that the … Continue reading
Affluenza
Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic© 2001, 2004, 2014 John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor288 pages In getting and spending, we lay waste to all our powers — so sayeth the poet. Originally published in 2001, Affluenza is a critique of consumerism, … Continue reading
Out of the Ashes
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture © 2017 Anthony Esolen 256 pages Some things, like a Roman bridge, can last for millennia through the virtue of their design, the simplicity of their use, and the inherent strength of their … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews, Society and Culture
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Catholicism, Christian humanism, Christianity, education, localism, marriage and family, Of Boys and Men, participation, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, sacramental living, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Seeing like a State
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed© 1999 James Scott464 pages Seeing like a State scrutinizes the organizational approach of state governments and other large institutions from the … Continue reading
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer© 2010 Joel Salatin300 pages Joel Salatin is crazy and glad to be so; in print and in media like Food, Inc and Fresh, he gleefully rejects what the late 20th century produced as conventional … Continue reading
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Tagged farming, goods/services, Joel Salatin, organic, social criticism, Society and Culture
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The Small Mart Revolution
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition© 2007 Michael Shuman285 pages Independence has long ceased to be the American credo, supplanted by another: efficiency. Throughout the 20th century, small businesses supporting towns and families were devoured … Continue reading
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly© 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe 500 pages Written as an indignant response to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin shook the American landscape in the mid-19th century as few other novels … Continue reading
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