The British Empire on Trial
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning By Nigel Biggar. William Collins, 2023. Hardcover, 480 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by Daniel J. Fischer. The urge to write history can strike almost anyone. Authors of major works of history in recent decades include people with graduate...
A Heroic Little Sparrow Shines Brightly in the Dark World of Children’s Literature
The Incredible Adventure of Passer the Sparrow By Paul Krause. Resource Publications, 2025. Paperback, 94 pages, $12. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. As any parent of reading-age children can attest, it is difficult to find good books for them. Beyond the challenge of...
Ulyssean Interrogations at Dusk, or Slowing Down at 65
By John Rodden. Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done…. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. …for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...
What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A Russell Kirk Center Special Series Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, The University Bookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and...
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“If the university no longer seeks the production and dissemination of knowledge, it loses the primary justification for its academic freedom.”
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