A Social Scientific Apologia for Marriage

A Social Scientific Apologia for Marriage

Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization  By Brad Wilcox.  Broadside Books, 2024. Hardcover, 320, $32. Reviewed by Nicholas R. Swanson.  The University of Virginia’s Brad Wilcox might be the world’s leading academic...
Genesis Through a Glass Darkly

Genesis Through a Glass Darkly

Reading Genesis By Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.00. Reviewed by Richard Gunderman. In thin places, the distance between heaven and earth is narrowed, making it possible for human beings to feel the presence of the...
Celebrate “Kirktober” by Supporting The University Bookman

Celebrate “Kirktober” by Supporting The University Bookman

SUPPORT THE BOOKMAN Did you know that John O’Sullivan, successor to Bill Buckley at National Review and now a prominent international journalist, got his start in journalism by writing for the University Bookman? As O’Sullivan mentioned in a panel discussion, Russell...
Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?

Hope—Is It Warranted at This Point?

Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s Political Crisis  By James Davison Hunter. Yale, 2024. Hardcover, 504 pages, $40. Reviewed by Brad Littlejohn. Being of a chronically pessimistic disposition, I used to enjoy picking out Despair.com posters...
The Life of Joseph Epstein

The Life of Joseph Epstein

Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein.  Free Press, 2024.  Hardcover, 304 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. Never? Maybe saying so really is OK, especially when you know that you had little to...