Conserving Liberty Online Lectures
The New Centurion Leadership Program has begun a monthly live broadcast on UStream with eight lectures on “Conserving Liberty” and focusing on Russell Kirk and F. A. Hayek. In January, Senior Fellow Gleaves Whitney introduced Kirk’s life and work, focusing on The...Terror and the ‘Market State’
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt (New York: A. A. Knopf, 2008) x + 672 pp, $35.00 (cloth).Phillip Bobbitt thinks big. In the 552 pages of the text of Terror and Consent, he displays a mastery of terrorism, intelligence,...
The Stature of John Courtney Murray
John Courtney Murray and the American Civil Conversation edited by Robert P. Hunt and Kenneth L. Grasso (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992), 312 pp. In 1955, John Tracy Ellis critically chronicled the absence of a vital and distinctively Catholic intellectual tradition in...
Live Where We Are
A conversation with John Byron Kuhner.The University Bookman is delighted to post this interview with John Byron Kuhner, author of a surprisingly engaging book about that often-neglected isle, Staten Island. His book, Staten Island, or, Life in the Boroughs, is a...
There are metaphorical hills on which I would be willing to die. The Oxford comma is one of them.
So easy to forget that the best way to educate yourself is to read great works of literature and philosophy, then talk about them. Bring back the salon!