Amusing Ourselves to Death
The television has turned learning into part of the entertainment industry and children are more and more demanding to be entertained in schools. Watching has replaced reading, and soundbites have replaced...
Sociology
To the Finland Station. A Study in the Writing and Acting of History
Edmund Wilson published the history of revolutionary Marxism in 1940, just at the beginning of World War II, when the only reference of the new social experiment was the Soviet Union. Later, in 1971, he...
Mass Exodus: Catholic disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II
Stephen Bullivant is Professor of Theology and the Sociology of Religion, and Director of the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society. He holds doctorates in Theology (Oxford, 2009) and Sociology (...
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
Who am I? The question today haunts every society in the Western world. Legions of people—especially the young—have become unmoored from a firm sense of self. To compensate, they join the ranks of...
Live Not by Lies. A Manual for Christian Dissidents
For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America, something more like...
Non avere paura di cadere. La libertà al tempo dell’insicurezza
Questo libro parla della libertà nel contesto della società contemporanea. L'autore, docente universitario, mette in evidenza gli aspetti principali della libertà e il suo evolversi e dispiegarsi nel tempo...
Future Crimes
In-depth and thorough study of the inconveniences caused by the exponential growth of computer technology applied to telecommunications. The author exposes, with great ease and abundance of anecdotes, the...
How We Got Here: The 70’s, the Decade that Brought You Modern Life (for Better or for Worse)
In How We Got Here, David Frum contends that it was the 70s, not the mythical 60s, that shaped American society into what it is now. At times a jeremiad, at times optimistic, at times provocative...
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
This is a long work (of over a 1000 pages) tracing the history of the Russian revolution from 1917 through to the death of Stalin in 1953. It does this through the medium of the large apartment block in...
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
Updated and expanded edition of a previous book in which Prof. Roger Scruton analyzes the main thinkers of the new left. He has selected for his study authors as Hobsbaw, Thompson, Galbraigth, Sartre,...