Public Discourse Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Feminism Against Progress
Mary Harrington
Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress urges us to do that just by its title, and by the vocabulary it adopts. https://t.co/iCfq6muLtW
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Abolition of Man
C. S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis in a Secular Core: The Abolition of Man and a More Natural Science https://t.co/X0twsCL6av
Paperback, 2015
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Dara Horn
Dara Horn wrote People Love Dead Jews in response to rising antisemitism in the United States. @csoppenheim https://t.co/jZ5RAiPLki
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose
Robert Graves
Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, in their 1943 book The Reader Over Your Shoulder, say that we should write “in the first place for silent reading, but with consideration for euphony if read aloud.” @MatthewJFranck https://t.co/lF70YADCvE
Paperback, 2018
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
Patrick J. Deneen
Just as Why Liberalism Failed was previewed in a First Things article, so Deneen’s most recent book Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future was previewed in a First Things lecture in 2019. https://t.co/3fmNa4vu6b
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
Helen Joyce
Why Radical Feminists Have to Go Further: A (Friendly) Critique of Helen Joyce’s Trans https://t.co/wMcMh6yV0e
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II
George Weigel
With his new book, To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II, George Weigel offers a more optimistic assessment of the meaning and import of the Council. @wrdcsc https://t.co/0f6bOdyn0P
Hardcover, 2022
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform
George Weigel
For some years, Weigel has been speaking of Vatican II as “The Council without Keys,” which is the title of a chapter in the book, as it was in his 2019 book The Irony of Modern Catholic History. @wrdcsc https://t.co/0f6bOdyn0P
Hardcover, 2019
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
James M. McPherson
An Interview with James McPherson: Thirty Years After the Publication of Battle Cry of Freedom https://t.co/SI5ELGzjGd
Paperback, 2003
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World
Samuel Gregg
Samuel Gregg's The Next American Economy aims for realism and precision, both of which can only improve the conversation. @philipljeffery https://t.co/Mi0qExkjXV https://t.co/D1x5LyR7Se
Hardcover, 2022
$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book