hardcover, by Robert Royal — Secular humanists and other progressives have been predicting the demise of religion for the past 250 years. But they keep running into a problem—those who were supposed to be liberated by secular gospel that God Is Dead aren’t buying it. Why not? Since the Greeks and Romans, as Robert Royal explains, religion has nurtured the development of the individual and of Western culture itself.[...]
paperback, by Erika Bachiochi — We are now more than thirty years away from the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade, yet the controversy over abortion has not diminished. Although the “pro-choice” forces increasingly acknowledge the central claim of the “pro-life” side—that abortion is a morally portentous act—they continue to insist that the well-being of women is absolutely dependent on the legal right to abortion.[...]
hardcover, by Theodore Dalrymple — For two hundred years, addiction to opiates has seemed both dangerous and glamorous. Countless writers, from Coleridge and De Quincey to William Burroughs and Irving Walsh, have invested it with deep philosophical significance. Addicts are presumed to be in touch with profound mysteries of which non-addicts are ignorant. Dalrymple shows that doctors, psychologists and social workers, all of them[...]
