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Burgis, Luke, ed.  2026.  Be Not Conformed: René Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley.  Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.  Paper.  266 p.  $34.95.
Devers, Erin.  2025.  The Unbiased Self: The Psychology of Overcoming Cognitive Bias.  Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic.  Paper.  183 p.  $22.
Hudson, Alexandra.  2023.  The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.  New York: St. Martin’s Press.  Cloth.  399 p.  $29.
Kingsnorth, Paul.  2025.  Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity.  New York: Penguin Random House/Thesis.  Cloth.  348 p.  $32.
Kravitz, Cynthia.  2024.  Paradise Is Now: Decrypting the Secret Cosmology of Isaac Newton’s Principia.  Eugene, OR: Resource Publications.  Paper.  315 p.  $36.
Levin, Yuval.  2024.  American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation–and Could Again.  New York: Basic Books.  Cloth.  341 p.  $32.
McDonnell, Lytton N.  2026.  Counterpoints of Ecstasy: Music, Mysticism, and the Enchantment of Modern America.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press.  Cloth.  353 p.  $130.
Neubauer, Lukasz & Spirito Guglielmo, eds.  2024.  The Songs of the Spheres: Lewis, Tolkien and the Overlapping Realms of their Imagination.  Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers.  Paper.  359 p.  $26.75.
Pilkington, Philip.  2025.  The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post-Liberal World Order.  Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press.  Paper.  224 p.  $22.95.
Pontynen, Arthur.  2024.  Science, Culture and the Reconciliation of Knowledge and Understanding: Mind the Gap.  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  Cloth.  273 p.  $124.95.
Riley, Jason L.  2025.  The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don’t Need Racial Preferences to Succeed.  New York: Basic Books.  Cloth.  288 p.  $27.
Smaldino, Paul E.  2023.  Modeling Social Behavior: Mathematical and Agent-Based Models of Social Dynamics and Cultural Evolution.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.  Paper.  341 p.  $60.
Tanenbaus, Sam.  2025.  Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America.  New York: Random House.  Cloth.  1018 p.  $40.
Yampolskiy, Roman V.  2024.  AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable.  New York: Chapman & Hall/CRC.  Paper.  250 p.  $39.99.

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