Favorite Books in 2024: Correcting Imbalances
Matt Pinson This year I’ve particularly enjoyed a handful of books that I think address imbalances or “pendulum-swings” in thought and practice. It should go without saying that there are things that all these authors assert in these books that I am completely opposed to (not to mention…
Favorite Books in 2024: The Ultimate Miscellany
W. Jackson Watts Readers of this site as well as my personal Substack site, Churchatopia, will know that my interests tend toward the eclectic. In my 2023 Favorite Books article, I reflected on a range of titles across disciplines and literary genre. This year’s list is no different.…
Favorite Books in 2023: Part 4
W. Jackson Watts Each year I produce a list of the best books I read in the past calendar year. I simply don’t have the luxury of confining myself to those titles only published in that specific year, though obviously some of them are quite recent. I increasingly…
Roger Scruton, in Memoriam
Matthew Pinson Some while back I wrote a couple of blog posts that reflected on some ideas from the book Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by the British philosopher Sir Roger Scruton. Many readers of this blog have benefited a great deal from reading one of…
Our Fears Betray Us
by W. Jackson Watts (this essay first appeared on the Helwys Society Forum on November 16; It has been republished here with permission) In the days following the election of Donald Trump, thousands of opinion pieces have appeared in newspapers, periodicals, and online news outlets. Such pieces range…