A TIME TO BUILD: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream by Yuval Levin Basic Books, New York, Hardcover: 256 pages Price: AUD$42.40 Reviewed by Michael Quinlan Yuval Levin is the Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a senior editor…
LIBERTY IN THE THINGS OF GOD: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedomby Robert Louis WilkenYale UP, New Haven, ConnecticutHardcover: 248 pagesPrice: AUD$46.99Reviewed by Michael Quinlan Professor Robert Louis Wilken is chairman of the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the publisher of First Things magazine. He is also the William R. Kenan…
chimera noun 1. (In Greek mythology) a fire-breathing female monster with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail. 2. A thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve. Synonyms: illusion, fantasy, delusion, dream, fancy, figment of the imagination, will-o’-the-wisp, phantom, mirage; ignis fatuus As a developed Western…
Contemporary Australia appears to be in revolt against tradition and Christianity. Here Professor Michael Quinlan, Dean of the School of Law, Sydney, of the University of Notre Dame Australia, provides an explanation of what is going on and makes some suggestions about what needs to be done to turn back the revolution and turn things…
