Reclaiming Protestantism At Its Best
Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction Edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich. The Davenant Press, 2022. Paperback, 270 pages, $26.95. Review by John Ehrett. A popular shibboleth of traditionalist history writing is the notion of a direct line...
On the Fall of Fated Men
The Anglo-Saxons. A History of the Beginnings of England: 400-1066 By Marc Morris. Hutchinson, 2021. Hardcover, 528 pages, $100. Reviewed by Timothy D. Lusch. “Historically speaking, the name ‘Anglo-Saxon’ has more connection to white hoods than boar-decorated...
Society: A Community of Souls
An essay by Frank Filocomo. The conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk is fundamentally incompatible with an ungrounded and listless libertarian ethos. While Burke and Kirk emphasize the importance of social cohesiveness and community, libertarians vociferously...
The Conservative Mind at 60: Russell Kirk’s Unwritten Constitutionalism
By Gerald Russello. In honor of The University Bookman’s long time editor Gerald Russello, who passed away a year ago this month, we are running Russello’s classic anniversary essay on Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind. The essay first appeared at Law and Liberty,...
Rights, Power, and Democracy Among the Anti-Federalists
An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates By Michael J. Faber. University Press of Kansas, 2019. Hardcover, 536 pages, $55. Reviewed by Adam L. Tate. The battle over ratification of the United States Constitution between...
History Is Never Certain
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville By Olivier Zunz. Princeton University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 472 pages, $35. Reviewed by Sarah Gustafson. In years since Alexis de Tocqueville’s death in 1859, his popularity has ebbed and flowed...
Reading Dante on His Terms
Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation By Andrew Frisardi. Angelico Press, 2020. Paperback, 272 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Ethan McGuire. Dante Alighieri, the Supreme Poet, was an intellectual and a member of the elite of his time, albeit not always in...
In Memory Of Gerald J. Russello, 1971-2021
by Eugene Schlanger We begin again to recall the dead. Poets and lyricists often attempt To reimagine their companions and friends. And then, along comes a younger death That upsets the usual complacency. At our luncheons all things seemed possible, As...
Men Rode to Catraeth
The Gododdin: Lament for the Fallen Translated by Gillian Clarke. Faber & Faber, 2021. Hardcover, 144 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David J. Davis. At the end of the sixth century, a Celtic British tribe known as the Gododdin met an army of invading Angles at the...
Timely, for sure. Hope @realdonaldtrump is reading.