Gateway to the Dissident Right
The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies By Auron MacIntyre. Regnery Publishing, 2024. Hardcover, 208 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Christopher Lightcap and Tom Sarrouf, Jr. Auron MacIntyre’s recent release of The Total State provides a fresh reading...
Susan Cooper on the Moral Imagination in Fantasy Fiction
Interviewed by Isaiah Flair. Editor’s Note: Susan Cooper is one of the preeminent fantasy fiction authors of the last 50 years. Her popular series, The Dark Is Rising, has influenced generations of readers. She won the American Library Association’s Margaret A....
2024 Richard D. McLellan Prizes winners announced
2024 Richard D. McLellan Prizes winners announced On December 5, 2024, the Russell Kirk Center will host the inaugural Richard D. McLellan Prizes Award Gala in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the historic Amway Grand Hotel. The event, hosted by a distinguished prizes Jury,...
Gerald Russello: The Man Who Did It All
November 7, 2024, marked the third anniversary of long-time Bookman editor Gerald Russello (1971-2021). This week he was honored with the publication of his most representative essays and reviews. How Do You Do It? The Selected Works of Gerald Russello is now...
Russello Classic: The Age of Addiction
Packaged Pleasures. How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross and Robert N. Proctor. University of Chicago Press, 2014. Hardcover, 336 pages, $38. Reviewed by Gerald J. Russello. This review by Gerald Russello, former editor of The University...
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...
Dissonance and Faith
Seven Challenges that Shaped the New Testament: Understanding the Inherent Tensions of Early Christian Faith By F. Scott Spencer. Baker Academic, 2024. Paperback, 240 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Budd. I wish someone else had written this book. I don’t say...
Prudence in the Political Philosophy of George Washington
The Political Writings of George Washington, two volumes. Edited by Carson Holloway and Bradford. P. Wilson. Cambridge University Press, 2023. Hardcover, $300.00. Reviewed by Michael P. Federici. Carson Holloway and Bradford P. Wilson are engaged in a project with...
Hope in the Past, Hope in the Future
Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World like the Early Church By Stephen O. Presley. Eerdmans, 2024. Paperback, 230 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Winston Hottman. What should be done about the decline of Christianity in the West? While some proposed solutions have...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.