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                ![Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI](https://files.jcrt.org/images/books/9781350602502.webp)

### [Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI](/religioustheory/posts/9781350602502/)

September 9, 2026 — By David Roome

David Roome reviews Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine, which recovers Kant’s critical philosophy as a diagnostic of what machine learning, artificial moral agency, and...

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### [Book Review: American Empire, American Faith: Conquest, Christianity, and the Shaping of a Nation](/religioustheory/posts/9781481324250/)

September 3, 2026 — By Kev Grane

Kev Grane reviews Philip Jenkins’s American Empire, American Faith, which reframes U.S. empire as a religious and moral order in which Christianity authorized,...

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### [BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME.](/religioustheory/posts/9780593493205/)

August 18, 2026 — By Kev Grane

Kev Grane reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap, whose sharpest contribution is showing how the identity synthesis undercuts its own egalitarian aims.

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