Skip to main content
All Posts By

James R. Vanderwoerd

BlogReviews

Book Review: The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution

The oft-used analogy that “fish don’t know they’re in water” is a reminder that a worldview, or, in Charles Taylor’s more nuanced phrase, a social imaginary (26), often becomes so taken for granted that we do not notice it anymore. Carl Trueman’s latest book, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, reveals the water…
James R. Vanderwoerd
March 22, 2022
Reviews

Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism

Reviewed by James R. Vanderwoerd, Applied Social Sciences, Redeemer University “If you build it, they will leave” (xvi). What could be more ominous, obvious, and even humorous than this pithy observation at the end of Joshua Muravchik’s preface? Muravchik grew up as a card-carrying socialist who was thoroughly imbued with the doctrines of socialism from…
James R. Vanderwoerd
May 11, 2021