Confronting our Current Digital Malaise
The One and the Ninety-Nine: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion By Luke Burgis. St. Martin’s Press, 2026. Hardcover, 288 pages, $30. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Luke Burgis has written an interesting book exploring the tension between belonging and...
A Secular Confession
Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative By Evan Barker. Simon and Schuster, 2026. Hardcover, 288 pages, $29. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. The journey from left to right is a staple of American political memoirs. But few journeys have been as...
Ames, Hamilton, Marshall: Russell Kirk’s Other Founding Federalists
By Michael Lucchese. 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...
Going West, Berlin Style
Cold War City: A History of West Berlin By David E. Barclay. Princeton University Press, 2026. Hardcover, 680 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Nadya Williams. It is perhaps fitting that after spending the first decade of my life in the Soviet Union, I first learned...
Snapped this unposed photo during the @Hillsdale Collegiate Scholars retreat @KirkCenter this weekend. Yes, they were all reading physical books!
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