Books about Politics

The Critical Wager Essays on Criticism and the Architecture of Ideology William D. Gairdner   BACK IN PRINT! A wide-ranging tour of such topics as philology as criticism, the Marxist impasse, and literature and the flight from determinism. “While more complex and subtle than a manifesto, The Critical Wager has something of a manifesto’s sense of historical…

Nation of Bastards Essays on the End of Marriage Douglas Farrow   “Erudite and impassioned – an act of faith and of resistance to the insidious claims of the post-Christian and post-liberal state.” – F. C. Decoste, Professor of Law, University of Alberta To some, same-sex marriage is evidence that society has finally come of age….