This book s 14 essays mostly by academics doesn t solve any of today s problems, but it shows lessons we may learn about polarization and culture wars by studying the past.
Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defied the KKK by Todd Tucker. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2018). 312 pp., $20.
Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition: Second Edition by E. Christian Brugger. University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, Ind., 2014). 281 pp. $29.