Reviews

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A Fraternity of the Furnace

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Fires of Moloch: Anglican Clergymen in the Furnace of World War One by Timothy Larsen (Oxford University Press, 2025)

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Sticks and Stones, Silk and Ink

Elizabeth Stice reviews The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood by William Whyte (Harvard University Press, 2026)

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For the love of the game

Orange Blossom Ordinary celebrates two years of existence

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Technopoly on line one

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska (Crown Currency, 2025)

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Common Sense and the Common Good

Elizabeth Stice reviews Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America by Chris Murphy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2026)

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Reasonable: you know it when you see it?

Elizabeth Stice reviews Being Reasonable: The Case for a Misunderstood Virtue by Krista Lawlor (Harvard University Press, 2026)

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Maintenance and the Making of Civilization

Elizabeth Stice reviews Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by Stewart Brand (Stripe Press, 2025)

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Don’t get too loose with it

Elizabeth Stice reviews Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better by David Epstein (Riverhead Books, 2026)

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Apples, America, and Adulthood

Elizabeth Stice reviews American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by Isaac Fitzgerald (Knopf, 2026)

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To signal or not to signal? Putting up the anti-AI sign (or not)

The anti-AI sign: is it virtue signaling or something else? We look to Václav Havel for help.

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With liberty and independence for all?

Elizabeth Stice reviews Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal by Quentin Skinner (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

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A Window Onto Grief

Elizabeth Stice reviews Windower by Michael Loughran (Ohio State University Press, 2025)

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As Entrancing as Snowy Egret Feathers

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds by James H. McCommons (St. Martin’s Press, 2026)

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Analog Intelligence

Elizabeth Stice reviews The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future by Joel J. Miller (Prometheus Books, 2025)

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A Boys’ Own Forgotten Front of World War I

Elizabeth Stice reviews Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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Getting Beyond Grit

Elizabeth Stice reviews Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans by Robert J. Sampson (Harvard University Press, 2026)

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From the Stacks: Islands and Beaches

From the Stacks: Elizabeth Stice explains what is great about Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent land: Marquesas 1774-1880 by Greg Dening (The Dorsey Press, 1980)