“Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History” Book by Andrew Burstein New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026 480 pages, $33.00 Over a long life encompassed by countless books while a student, professor or a researcher, it is... Read More

The following excerpt is from the new book, “What’ll We Do With All the Churches?” by Steve Perron. His book is unique among the growing field of memoirs and commentaries on faith and religious deconstruction... Read More

BOOK BY A. C. GRAYLING ONE WORLD PUBLICATIONS LTD., 2025 It is everywhere: people, places and things are called “woke!” What? According to several news reports in late summer 2025, even the largely rural Southern... Read More

BOOK BY JOHN FUGELSANG That a book defending Christianity and the Bible against fundamentalists and religious nationalists could be relevant to humanists might seem contradictory. However, the author’s approach—pairing extremists’ stated beliefs with Christ’s actual... Read More

BOOK BY HEATHER FELLIN TIERNY VINE LEAVES PRESS, 2025 236 PP, $17.99 Traveling by train is not about getting somewhere the quickest way possible; it’s about the process of travel, the landscape and life passing... Read More

Book by By D.J. Taylor Pegasus Books (2023) J.D. Taylor does an excellent job laying out the cycle of Orwell’s life in fascinating intimacy in Orwell: The New Life (2023). Orwell’s voice spans two centuries... Read More

BOOK BY PHILIP J SENTER FERAL HOUSE, 2025 The Real Story of Dinosaurs and Dragons is an informative and thought-provoking exploration of the expansive young-Earth creationist bungling attempts to make sense of the fossil record,... Read More