2024 Archive
Saving the Protestant Ethic:
CREATIVE CLASS EVANGELICALISM AND THE CRISIS OF WORK
by Dr. Andrew Lynn
A longer review is forthcoming, but Lynn does great work academically documenting the history of the faith and work movement in the United States, a subject near and dear to my heart. His research and compartmental analysis is phenomenal. His diagnosis of the movement’s flaw is sorely lacking
The New Crowd:
THE CHANGING OF THE JEWISH GUARD ON WALL STREET
by Judith Ehrlich & Barry Rehfeld
Fifty history books combined into one, covering a century of Wall Street drama. This is my kind of reading.
Up Close and All in:
LESSONS FROM A WALL STREET WARRIOR
by John Mack
I first talked to John Mack on my second day at Morgan Stanley when he called to welcome me aboard and invite me to a dinner event. I worked under him as a Managing Director at the firm throughout the global financial crisis, a period Mack describes in vivid detail in this book, doing justice to the Herculean efforts Mack exerted to save his prestigious firm. We are all better off for his resilience, and his was a career well-lived in profound ways.
Virtuous Liberty:
A CHRISTIAN DEFENSE OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND THE FREE SOCIETY
Edited by P. Andrew Sandlin
Okay, my reading of this did skip two chapters since I had already read them when I wrote them. But the whole of this book features remarkable contributions from a host of public intellectuals covering the most significant topic posing an internal divide within the cultural, political, and economic right.
The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory:
AMERICAN EVANGELICALS IN AN AGE OF EXTREMISM
by Tim Alberta
A gifted writer documents his own upbringing and analysis of what is wrong with modern evangelical engagement. He paints with a broad brush when a narrow one is needed, rightly indicating a small segment of a movement but wrongly including a far broader population than is appropriate and horrifically misdiagnosing proper cultural apologetics.