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Soldiers of a Different Cloth by John Wukovits

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

The book is a wonderful tribute to the men and women of Notre Dame who served during World War II, whether in combat or assisting others in enemy prison camps.

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Audiobook Review: Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

A compelling and informative look at the events leading up the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan in August of 1945.

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Generals in the Making by Benjamin Runkle

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Jeff Grim / 1 Comment

Runkle produces a phenomenal work in describing the ascent of many of the generals who led the United States Army to victory in the European and Pacific Theater...

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A Crime in the Family by Sacha Batthyany

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

In the end, it is a redeeming feature of the human spirit that, although we are who we are partially because of our past, it does not mean that we have to conti...

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Tin Can Titans by John Wukovits

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

An excellent narrative of the blue-collar destroyers. Destroyers did not have the firepower of battleships or cruisers or the glamour of the aircraft carriers, ...

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Notes & Asides

  • 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

    - Christianity & the Jericho March
  • 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

    - Kevin Williamson on the college debt debate
  • Wharton’s novel was little appreciated in its time, and it hasn’t benefited from the same revival of interest that eventually rescued F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, another Jazz Age novel. Maybe it’s because our culture is created and largely controlled by latter-day Pauline (and Paul) Manfords. Gatsby’s novel is held to reject the American dream itself as a falsity, obscene wealth as corrupting, and the WASP ruling class as a permanent source of oppression, despite its evident decline. Compared with Wharton’s novel, which cuts deeper and is more personal, Gatsby looks like a cheap attempt at scapegoating. For Twilight Sleep is a satire of the modern age, but it targets some of our permanent temptations. If we’re about to embark on a new Roaring Twenties, Wharton’s book will remind us that we’ve been there before.

    Michael Brendan Dougherty

    - Wharton vs Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age Novel
  • Mental Anchors for Information Overload - my review of Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs

    - Me in the University Bookman on Breaking Bread with the Dead
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    - nothing has changed in nearly seven years

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