The Seven Deadly Virtues

In THE SEVEN DEADLY VIRTUES, nationally renowned journalist, Senior Writer for the Weekly Standard and author Jonathan Last leads an all-star team of 18 conservative writers in a hilarious, insightful, and sanctimony-free remix of the Book of Virtues.  THE SEVEN DEADLY VIRTUES sits down next to readers at the bar, buys them a drink, and an hour (or three) later, ushers them into the revival tent without them even realizing it.  This collection of 18 original essays—by such writers as P.J. O’Rourke, Christopher Buckley, Jonah Goldberg, and Andrew Ferguson—aims at rediscovering the virtuous life in an era of momentous change.

As Jonathan Last argues—the problem today isn’t that we “no longer live in an age concerned with virtue.  The problem is that we have organized ourselves around the wrong virtues.”  He maintains that we’re now incorrectly structuring society around “seven modern virtues” (Freedom, Convenience, Progress, Equality, Authenticity, Health, and Nonjudmentalism) instead of the “seven cardinal virtues”.