The New Dark Age: Why Liberals Must Win the Culture Wars By Nigel Biggar. Polity Press, 2026. Hardcover, 192 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Nigel Biggar did not join the culture wars voluntarily: the culture wars came for him. He opens his new book with a...
The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order By Philip Pilkington. Polity, 2025. Paperback, 240 pages, $22.95 Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Philip Pilkington has written a very provocative and thought-provoking book, one that...
Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply About the Meaning of Our Existence By Samuel T. Wilkinson. Pegasus Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. Samuel T. Wilkinson, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University, has written a...
The Virtues of Limits By David McPherson. Oxford University Press, 2022 (Paperback 2025). Paperback, 208 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. In an age that glorifies leaping past all barriers, David McPherson has written an argument for the importance of...
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...
Continually Revising History
@lee_trepanier on "The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age" (Eric Voegelin Studies) Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer.