The Fourth Awokening and Its Discontents

The Fourth Awokening and Its Discontents

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite By Musa al-Gharbi. Princeton University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. I would like to alert University Bookman readers to an excellent and important book that has...
After Liberalism…Faith?

After Liberalism…Faith?

The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism By John Gray. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 192 pages, $27. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Reviewing one of John Gray’s recent books is an adventurous undertaking. Rather than straightforward histories, or...
Good Economics on a Human Scale

Good Economics on a Human Scale

The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good By Alexander William Salter. The Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Paperback, 238 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Alexander Salter has written an important book,...
Why Public Reason Fails

Why Public Reason Fails

Tradition and the Deliberative Turn: A Critique of Contemporary Democratic Theory By Ryan R. Holston.  State University of New York Press, 2023. Paperback, 218 pages, $34.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Political theorists have recently devoted a great amount of...
The Patterns of Living

The Patterns of Living

Cities Alive: Jane Jacobs, Christopher Alexander, and the Roots of the New Urban Renaissance by Michael W. Mehaffy. Sustasis Press, 2017. Paperback, $20. Reviewed by Gene Callahan I first encountered the work of the great urban theorist Jane Jacobs due to the...