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Book Review of Sacred and Secular

Here's a fairly interesting review by Os Guiness of Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart. It re-hashes a lot of the stuff we hear from other sources, but it's a decent overview. Link [http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?

Reader's World

We earlier reported that general book sales are down. Link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1125/] . But this NYT article [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/books/02book.html?] says they're up: > Sales of general-interest books are thriving, in sharp contrast to recent downturns in other communications and

Westminster Joins Rome

The widespread discrediting of The Da Vinci Code as pure fiction doesn't matter. Dupes will still be talking about its historicity ten years from now. > Westminster Abbey has issued tour guides with information sheets to help them correct the factual errors in the bestselling novel The Da

Jouvenel Review

ISI Book's book on Bertrand de Jouvenel (part of its excellent Library of Modern Thinkers collection) is coming out soon. George Carey has given it a good review in the forthcoming issue of The American Conservative (no link available). Excerpt: > [In the first chapter of On Power]

Peterson on Pieper

The new Gilbert Magazine arrived this week. In the Miscellany of Men Department, John Peterson provides a splendid overview of one of our favorite philosophers, Josef Pieper. No link available. Excerpts: > [Pieper] never used technical language, preferring instead the language of common sense, the language of the people. But