As Likely to End the World as to Save It: Knowledge and Science in Cormac McCarthy
The Passenger and Stella Maris. By Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $56. Reviewed by Philip D. Bunn. This essay is part of a symposium on the work of Cormac McCarthy. “And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there...
Learning from the Habsburg Mystique
The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times By Eduard Habsburg. Sophia Institute Press, 2023. Hardcover, 176 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What makes the Habsburgs, rulers for six centuries of the Holy Roman Empire and later the...
The Catholic Enlightenment
Rethinking the Enlightenment: Faith in the Age of Reason By Joseph T. Stuart. Sophia Institute Press, 2020. Paperback, 400 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Christian Browne. The question of how, and whether, to reconcile the Catholic Church with the modern world has been...
Tory Violence and Liberal Weakness: An Appreciation of George Dangerfield’s The Strange Death of Liberal England
By John Rossi. It is rare when an historical study, even when scholarly challenged, continues to dominate an interpretation of events. Churchill’s indictment of appeasement in The Gathering Storm and Richard Hofstadter’s study of the flaws of the progressive idea in...
Barry Cooper's review of THE GROWTH OF THE LIBERAL SOUL is available on the @ubookman page at: https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/after-ideology-but-before-the-revolution-the-liberal-soul/
I'm pleased to see the University Bookman running a small symposium on a new book (or a new edition of an old book) by David Walsh, whose work remains essential amidst debates over liberalism. Personally, Walsh's influence has kept me from going full post-liberal.