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Give Me Liberty by Richard Brookhiser

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

The bulk of the book is classic Brookhiser. Short, pithy and insightful description of history and its impact/significance. But it is also an argument about Am...

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Book Review: Decision Points by George W Bush

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

No matter your opinion of George W Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, a lot of momentous events happened during his eight years in office; from the ...

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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack by Steve Twomey

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

In Countdown to Pearl Harbor Steve Twomey revisits the reasons why the Americans were so caught off-guard by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Still to this ...

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The Wars of the Roosevelts by William J. Mann

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

A masterpiece on one of America's most powerful political families in the first half of the Twentieth Century, the Roosevelts. The Wars of the Roosevelts is a d...

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The Swamp Fox by John Oller

Posted on February 12, 2017 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

Although at first blush the title of John Oller's The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution seems a bit hyperbolic, but after reading it, ...

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Joseph Bottum and America's Anxious Age – Part 1

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Part one of a conversation with Joseph Bottum, author of An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America, about American Religious History a...

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John J. Miller talks with Joseph Bottum about The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Another fascinating episode of Between the Covers. I am hoping to post both a review of An Anxious Age and an interview with the author myself in the not too d...

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Notes & Asides

  • I really enjoy The Pinkcast. But this one, on dealing with frustration, is particularly useful these days. Check it out.

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  • OK, I am done futzing around with the theme/header/layout/etc. Not that anyone noticed, but back to your regularly scheduled programing...

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  • Highly recommend the three Lord of the Rings episodes from the Great Books podcast. Start with The Fellowship of the Ring episode.

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  • While the laws that we live under matter a great deal, Christians need to recover the primacy of the personal over the political more than anything else. If we can’t love our neighbors in a personal, politically agnostic, face-to-face way, they’ll turn to synthetic and unreal ideological communities to fill the gap left by the loneliness of their daily lives.

    The road back to sanity, solidarity, and social trust on both sides of the political spectrum will involve turning away from this ideological cul-de-sac and back toward personal communities once more. If Christian churches won’t do this, they risk being exploited as political playthings of the powers that be. -- Christianity as Ideology: The Cautionary Tale of the Jericho March

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  • You’ll notice we are not having a national debate about paying off poor people’s mortgages. We could do that just as easily if the self-declared champions of the poor had any interest in anything other than their own status and their own appetites.

    They don’t.

    The College-Debt Debate Is a Culture-War Battle

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