Written for a lay audience, this volume contains essays on general bioethics, reproductive technologies, rape protocols, vaccines, organ transplantation, stem cells, genetic counseling, genetic engineering, and critical end-of-life issues. The authors are leading Catholic bioethicists Erica Laethem, John Haas, Edward Furton, Marilyn Coors, and Archbishop José Gomez. Suitable for classroom […]
Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America examines the decline of American education and offers a solution. It is not more spending or a new and innovative program. Rather the solution, according to authors Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern, is classical education.
In 2013, Stephen Meyer’s book Darwin’s Doubt became a national bestseller, provoking a wide-ranging debate about the adequacy of Darwinian theory to explain life’s history. In Debating Darwin’s Doubt: A Scientific Controversy That Can No Longer Be Denied, leading scholars in the intelligent design community respond to critiques of Meyer’s […]
Rejoicing in the Truth offers a series of different looks at the life of a Christian educator. When educators make it their goal to accompany their students along the path to wisdom and to instruct them by showing them how to delight in the truth, then their practice is illuminated […]
This entry is part of a series, Churchill» Volume 18 of the Churchill Documents, One Continent Redeemed, covers the first eight months of 1943. As with previous volumes, it collects a remarkably wide range of archives too voluminous to include in Randolph S. Churchill and Sir Martin Gilbert’s multivolume biography […]
In The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition, and the Renewal of Catholic History, Catholic historians Shannon and Blum challenge the secular bias currently prevalent among professional historians, and argue for the compatibility of faith and reason in the study of the past. Inspired by the understanding of tradition developed in […]
The work of Benedictine priest, theologian, and world-renowned physicist Stanley Jaki is given its first systematic study here in Creation and Scientific Creativity. Haffner also provides a full bibliography of over three decades of Jaki’s scholarship, along with a comprehensive overview of Jaki’s life and career.
While conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin’s theory, many on the right have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinism. Darwin’s Conservatives explains that their attempts to reconcile conservatism and Darwinian biology misunderstand both.
The Hillsdale College History Faculty painstakingly assembled American Heritage: A Reader in order to provide its own students with a true liberal arts education grounded in the American tradition. This comprehensive collection will provide readers both inside and outside the classroom with a traditional educational experience that enlarges and ennobles the mind.
First published in 1960 to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Bill Buckley’s brash, consequential magazine of opinion, An Evening with National Review: Some Memorable Articles from the First Five Years is republished, in its exact form, for the enjoyment of today’s conservatives, who can see why the great writers who made National Review their journalistic home in the late 1950s remain worthwhile, entertaining, and timeless.
“Now is the time to recover thrift as an ethic and revive it as a practice.”– David Blankenhorn, American Thrift: A Reader The Institute for American Values began its work on thrift-—the ethic of wise use—-in 2004, when they were invited to partner with the John Templeton Foundation in a […]
Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America examines the decline of American education and offers a solution. It is not more spending or a new and innovative program. Rather the solution, according to authors Gene Edward Veith, Jr. and Andrew Kern, is classical education.
Government Is the Problem is the story of a broken welfare system that needed to be fixed, of a great leader named Ronald Reagan who said that it could be fixed, of doubters who said that it could not be fixed, and of the man—Robert B. Carleson—who fixed it. Carleson pioneered the true reform that reversed a growing dependence on the welfare state and moved America away from the ruinous path of income redistribution.
This succinct but illuminating book defends the free market, while criticizing a narrowly economistic understanding of man and society. Baldacchino argues that a sound economy has ethical and cultural prerequisites that are integral to its survival. Includes an introduction by Russell Kirk.
