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Recommended:

Eric Voegelin

The Religious Foundations of Francis Bacon's Thought (Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy: Studies in Religion and Politics) by Stephen A. McKnight

Order and History: In Search of Order (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin)volume 18 (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin) by Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz

Order and History: The Ecumenic Age (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin)

Christopher Lasch

Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations by Christopher Lasch

The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch

Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown

Wendell Berry

James Archambeault's Historic Kentucky by James Archambeault

Andy Catlett: Early Travels: A Novel by Wendell Berry

Jayber Crow: A Novel by Wendell Berry

E. F. Schumacher

Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered : 25 Years Later...With Commentaries by E. F. Schumacher

Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher

Opulent Textiles: The Schumacher Collection by Richard E. Iii Slavin

Richard Weaver

Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver

Communicating Effectively with Student CD-ROM and PowerWeb by Saundra Hybels, Richard L Weaver II

Communicating Effectively by Saundra Hybels, Richard L. Weaver

Russell Kirk

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk

American Cause by Russell Kirk

Quantum Mechanics: Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action (Series on "Scientific Perspectives on Divine Action", 5th V)

Robert Nisbet

Conservatism: Dream and Reality (Concepts in Social Thought) by Robert Nisbet

The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (ICS Series in Self-Governance) by Robert A. Nisbet

Roosevelt and Stalin: The Failed Courtship by Robert A. Nisbet

Neil Postman

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

Ivan Illich

Deschooling Society (Open Forum) by Ivan Illich

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich

Energy and Equity (Ideas in Progress) by Ivan D. Illich

George Grant

George Grant: A Biography by William Christian

George Grant in Conversation (In Conversation series) by David Cayley

English-Speaking Justice by George Parkin Grant

Walter Ong, S.J.

Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong, Walter J. Ong

Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason by S.J., Walter J. Ong

Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong

Marshall McLuhan

The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan, Lewis H. Lapham

The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan

Reviewed:

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry (Review)

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt (Review)

Roman Catholic Political Philosophy by James V. Schall (Review)

Sacred Order/Social Order: My Life Among the Deathworks (Sacred Order / Social Order) by Philip Rieff (Review)

I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Review or Excerpt)

Stuck With Virtue (Religion and Contemporary Culture) by Peter Augustine Lawler (Review or Excerpt)

Methodism: Empire of the Spirit by David Hempton (Review or Excerpt)

American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (Review or Excerpt)

Augustine: A New Biography by James J. O'Donnell (Review or Excerpt)

Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium by Pope John Paul II (Review or Excerpt)

Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson (Review or Excerpt)

Varieties Of Conservatism In America (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Review or Excerpt)

Chaucer: Ackroyd's Brief Lives (Ackroyd Brief Lives) by Peter Ackroyd (Review or Excerpt)

The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith by Alan Wolfe (Review)

America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln by Mark A. Noll (Review)

Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War by E. Brooks Holifield (Review)

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Saint Augustine (Review)

Mudhouse Sabbath by Lauren F. Winner (Review)

Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life by Lauren F. Winner (Review)

Home is Always the Place You Just Left: A Memoir of Restless Longing and Persistent Grace by Betty Smartt Carter (Review)

Saint Augustine's Childhood: CONFESSIONES BOOK ONE (Testimony, Bk 1) by Augustine of Hippo (Review)

The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth (Review)

America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire by Claes Ryn (Review)

My Faith So Far: A Story of Conversion and Confusion by Patton Dodd (Read an Excerpt)

Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity As Confinement (Crosscurrents) by Philippe Beneton (Read an Excerpt)

Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in a Uncertain World (Crosscurrents) by Chantal Delsol (Review or Excerpt)

Culture and the Thomist Tradition: After Vatican II by Tracey Rowland (Review or Excerpt)

Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible by Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau (Review or Excerpt)

The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch (Review or Excerpt)

American Way: Family & Community In Shaping Of American Identity by Allan Carlson (Review or Excerpt)

The Passion of the Christ (Full Screen Edition) (Review)

John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion by Frank M. Turner, Frank Turner (Review)