The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Taking Movies Seriously, Perhaps Too Seriously
“Dalfonzo’s conception of film as a moral mirror that serves to reveal to us our lapses and failings is certainly founded on an honest and conscientious set of wishes—on that score I have no doubts. I nonetheless suspect that this hope emerges from a blurring of the formal and moral properties of art.”
The Seduction and Perils of Artificial Intelligence
“The inescapable truth is that AI is a transformative technology, even more so perhaps than were the computer and the internet. We are not even close to resolving fundamental questions such as how much autonomy we wish to grant AI and how greatly the adoption of AI will affect our freedom of choice.”
The Audacious Russell Kirk
“Neither Eliot nor Kirk would justify surrender in the face of conflict, especially when order in the commonwealth is at stake.”
The Imaginative Russell Kirk
“Michael Lucchese has gathered 17 essays in which Kirk discusses not only the Founding, but also the nation that the Revolution created, the distinctive nature of the people who imagined and developed it, and the traditions they inherited and adapted.”
Remembering Robert Fagles: From Suffering to Meaning
“[Fagles] took as the essence of tragedy Aeschylus’s phrase ‘pathei mathos,’ ‘learning via suffering,’ which contained in it the belief that we could reap a harvest of knowledge from the pain.”
Coming Home
“…Patrick Deneen draws from political theory, classics, American literature, and film to understand the American concept of homecoming and adventure.”
Ideas Matter Now More Than Ever
“…Hörcher and Pitt convey theory by packaging it within the particularity of British politics that has been informed by intellectual conservatism.”
America’s Treasured Declaration
“It serves us with a reminder that the Declaration is America’s most sacred relic, a symbol of our founding principles, and a text that continues to play a quintessential part in American culture. The Declaration of Independence binds us together and makes us one nation.”
Beyond the Tithe: Unearthing Two Millennia of Christian Political Economy
“Themes of wealth, poverty, and greed pervade early Christian writing about markets. So, too, do concerns about justice in price, profit, and lending at interest.”
The Book Gallery
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Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.
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