Northwestern University Press has just issued a volume in honor of NR alumnus and Bill Buckley protégé Garry Wills. For those unfamiliar with the life and views of Mr. Wills the past few years, let it suffice to point out that the preface of this book says that Wills “has become a prophet, much like Rev. Jeremiah Wright,” and intends this as praise. (WFB once joked that he had been “running a finishing school for apostates.”)

The book, Nation and World, Church and God: The Legacy of Garry Wills, is a bit of a misnomer, in that roughly half the essays in it make only cursory mention of Wills; it’s more like an academic Festschrift in that regard than strictly a book detailing Wills’s accomplishments. A highlight of the book is an article by frequent NR contributor Sarah Ruden, questioning the claims of the theological “peacemaking” movement.