James Chappel is the Gilhuly Family Associate Professor of History at Duke University. His most recent book is Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age (Basic Books). He is working on a study of C. S. Lewis.
John McGreevy’s book is a gripping history of the modern Catholic Church, an institution at once a stolid purveyor of tradition and an agent of revolutionary change.
In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity
