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At Mecosta House, we aim to combine with the Kirk Center’s programs to foster an intellectual community dedicated to exploring the wisdom of our predecessors while forging a new conservative humanism.

We hope our readers will be edified by the titles we publish, and that they will strengthen the programs and the courses we will introduce at the Kirk Center as part of our School of Conservative Studies. David Hein’s Teaching the Virtues offers a fresh look at a perennial educational aim—encouraging virtue in the next generation, and we are proud to present it as our first book.

From the University Bookman

Renewing Our Understanding of True Freedom

Renewing Our Understanding of True Freedom

Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License By Brad Littlejohn. B&H Academic, 2025. Paperback, 192 pages, $22.99. Reviewed by Andrew Fowler. reedom could be Modernity’s most overused yet least understood word. In an...

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Abolitionism’s George Washington

Abolitionism’s George Washington

The Conductor: The Story of Rev. John Rankin, Abolitionism’s Essential Founding Father By Caleb Franz. Post Hill Press, 2024. Paperback, 336 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Peter Biles. he past is like a waterfall, and history is like the glass of water...

Life During Wartime

Life During Wartime

To Go On Living: Stories By Narine Abgaryan. Plough, 2025. Hardcover, 220 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Michial Farmer. odern Westerners live with a delusion. We actually live with a lot of delusions, but perhaps the most insidious one is that the...

The Triumph of Love

The Triumph of Love

Muses of a Fire: Essays on Faith, Film, and Literature By Paul Krause. Stone Tower Press, 2024. Paperback, 227 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. oman Polanski’s 1974 masterpiece Chinatown is not only a classic of film noir, but it is also...

Understanding the Rest of Hemingway’s Iceberg

Understanding the Rest of Hemingway’s Iceberg

Hemingway’s Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction By John Beall.  Louisiana State University Press, 2024.  Hardcover, 310 pages, $50. Reviewed by Sean C. Hadley. n Brad Paisley’s 2005 hit song, “Alcohol,” the country musician sings about...

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For six decades, the University Bookman, founded by Russell Kirk, has identified and discussed those books that diagnose the modern age and support the renewal of culture and the common good. Currently published online, the Bookman continues its mission of examining our times in light of the Permanent Things that make us human.

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