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The forms of imagination encouraged by popular culture, where the 'sense of drama and struggle over good and evil played out in the human heart and in history has been reduced to the triviality of the afternoon soap opera, to the chase of the action movie, and to the rosy world of romantic comedy and sitcom...' The book also contains a number of insightful critiques of modern social life, including a provocative essay entitled 'Dorm Brothel' that addresses the contemporary sexual morays and dating-practices of American college students.

Davenport reviews Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries by Mark Stephen Jendrysik.

Davenport reviews Contemplatives in Action: The Jesuit Way by William A. Barry and Robert G. Doherty.

'The Covenant Connection: From Federal Theology to Modern Federalism' edited by Daniel J. Elazar and John Kincaid is reviewed.

'Curriculum, Religion, and Public Education: Conversations for an Enlarging Public Square' edited by James T. Spears with James C. Carper is reviewed.

'The City of Man' by Pierre Manent and translated by Marc A. LePain with a foreword by Jean Bethke Elshtain is reviewed.