The Conscience of a Nation

The Conscience of a Nation

The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought By Melvin L. Rogers. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 400 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. African American political thought has seen a resurgence in...
A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues

A Premature Treatment of Our Post-Covid Urban Issues

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Penguin, 2021. Hardcover, 480 pages, $30. Reviewed by Matthew M. Robare. David Cutler and Ed Glaeser’s new book, Survival of the City (Penguin, 2021), is an oddity. It...
The Graces of Death and Nature

The Graces of Death and Nature

Three Roads Back: How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives By Robert D. Richardson. Princeton University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 128 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by Paul Krause. Death is a morbid topic, one that most people...
Right Populism 

Right Populism 

The Conservative Affirmation By Willmoore Kendall. Regnery, 2022. Paperback, 432 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Benjamin Clark. First published in 1963, Willmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation remains an under-read classic of conservative theory and political...
Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty

Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty

Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education By Mary C. Wright. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 296 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The most recent permanent fixtures on college campuses are Centers of Teaching...
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

By Daniel McCarthy. Conservatism is a philosophy of love, which perhaps explains why it is so little understood in our time. Half a millennium ago Niccolò Machiavelli weighed whether it is better to be loved or feared. Those emotions—unlike their counterparts hate and...
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

Conservatives’ Cornerstone

By Dr. Kevin Roberts. The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is the most important book about conservatism ever written. Prior to Kirk’s masterwork, there was not an organized conservative movement in the United States; within months of its publication, there was. ...
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

Russell Kirk and The Conservative Mind

By Dr. George H. Nash. In May 1953, an obscure university professor in Michigan named Russell Kirk published his doctoral dissertation under the title The Conservative Mind. To the surprise of nearly everyone, it was an instant success. It received more than one...
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

The Conservative Mind at 70

By Roger Kimball. An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance, and complexity, composed of far...
Russell Kirk’s Book of Love

Whispers From Kirk

By Gerald J. Russello. In honor of The University Bookman’s former editor Gerald Russello, who passed away two years ago this month, we are reprinting this essay, which was originally published in 2007, with the gracious permission of Chronicles magazine. Stan Evans...