How to Love What is Permanent

How to Love What is Permanent

Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul From Mediocrity By Joshua Gibbs. Circe Institute, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28.99 Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. A significant part of Russell Kirk’s legacy is that he reminded moderns to seek and cherish the “permanent things”...
Personalism in the Age of AI

Personalism in the Age of AI

Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko. Lexington Books, 2025. Hardcover, 266 pages, $115.  Reviewed by Grant R. Martsolf. The first time I had ever heard of ChatGPT was in April of...
Christopher Dawson and Pluralism

Christopher Dawson and Pluralism

By Gerald J. Russello. Editors’ Note: The University Bookman honors the fourth anniversary of the passing of its long-time editor, Gerald J. Russello, by republishing this essay on one of Gerald’s favorite subjects: Christopher Dawson. This essay appeared in Faith...
Trust and Hope as the Final Words

Trust and Hope as the Final Words

Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation By Christine Kohler. Resource Publications, 2024.  Hardcover, 78 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Christine Kohler’s poetry debut, Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation,...
The Other Greek Woman

The Other Greek Woman

Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, Second Edition By Nancy Felson.  Harvard University Press, 2025.  Hardcover, 220 pages, $24.95.  Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Until the recent fascination with Cleopatra VII, Helen of Sparta / Troy has been the most readily...