Louis Markos, Author at The Federalist

Louis Markos

Louis Markos, professor in English and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. His books include “Apologetics for the 21st Century,” “On the Shoulders of Hobbits,” and “Restoring Beauty: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful in the Writings of C. S. Lewis.”

Inside The Quiet, Prophetic Politics Of C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis’ theological impact is widely noted, but a new book by Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson, ‘C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law,’ persuasively argues his work is also of great political significance.

Why Western Civilization Needs Heroes

In “The Devil’s Pleasure Palace,” Michael Walsh explains how renewing the heroic tradition in Western art can rescue our culture from the dehumanizing horrors of postmodernism.

The Inklings Were Not Closet Pagans

The Inklings, a group of writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, thought pagan myths grasped at greater truths fully revealed in Christ.

A New Rendition Of ‘Christianity On Trial’

The only way that we can gain real knowledge of a God outside time and space is if he initiates the conversation, argues the new ‘Christianity on Trial.’