Farewells and Looking Ahead

by | Sep 7, 2008

By the time this issue reaches our subscribers, the nation will have chosen its two contending nominees for President. Unfortunately, the current candidates do not seem to have taken to heart the advice suggested by Christopher Layne, whose book, No More Illusions, is...

The Problem with the World is You?

by | Sep 7, 2008

God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get it by Jim Wallis. New York: HarperCollins, 2005, 2006. 432 pages. Nearly a century ago G. K. Chesterton asked “what’s wrong with the world?” His first and last answer was always the same: “I am.” In...

The Judicial Mask

by | Jul 29, 2008

A new Bookman online review from Gerald J. Russello covers How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner.

Removing the Judicial Mask

by | Jul 29, 2008

How Judges Think by Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press, 2008), 387 pp, $29.95The debate over judicial nominees follows a well-worn script. Conservatives lament “activist” judges and advocate for “strict construction” of the Constitution. They are especially...

Eliot Conference

by | Jul 23, 2008

The Kirk Center is co-sponsoring a conference on T. S. Eliot on August 14–16, 2008 in conjunction with the new edition of Dr. Kirk’s book, Eliot and His Age. See the conference page for details. A full schedule is now available.