In her latest thought-provoking collection of columns, Peggy Noonan calls on her fellow Americans to shine up their imperfect but beautiful nation and pass it on to the next generation. Stan and Doug say that this volume already shines.

Stan and Doug review master apologist and philosopher Peter Kreeft's insightful new book.

How Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai made a billion dollars, courageously stood against totalitarianism, and (just maybe) saved his soul. Stan and Doug review The Troublemaker.

Rod Dreher's latest book, Living in Wonder, seeks to combat our culture's arid secularism, encouraging us to embrace the mystery all around us. Stan and Doug endorse the idea in general but suggest some specific cautions.

Author Christine Rosen, in her book The Extinction of Experience, warns that our passion for digital technology is undermining our ability to live truly human lives.

Stan and Doug take a (mostly) nonpolitical look at J.D. Vance's family memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

Erik Larson's chronicle of the chaotic start of the Civil War raises uncomfortable questions about our own era.

Did American fundamentalists go into a broad cultural retreat following the Scopes trial? Madison Trammel's new book, Fundamentalists in the Public Square: Evolution, Alcohol, and Culture Wars after the Scopes Trial, suggests that we take another look. Stan and Doug do just that in the latest episide.