Gnosticism, American Style

Give Speech a Chance: Heretical Essays On What You Can’t Say or Even Think by Harley Price. FGF Books, 2022. Hardcover, 326 pages, $25. Reviewed by Bartholomew de la Torre, O.P. After reading about Gnosticism, which is Greek for Know-it-all-ism, for years, all I could...

Quo Vadis, America?

War and Peace: A Fulton Sheen Anthology by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Edited by Al Smith. Sophia Institute Press, 2022. Paperback, 416 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Joseph Tuttle. War and Peace is a collection of three series of radio addresses given by the great...

Civil Society and the Marketplace

Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America By Rachel S. Ferguson and Marcus M. Witcher. Emancipation Books, 2022. Paperback, 464 pages, $18.00. Reviewed by Gregory M. Collins. Perhaps the first book ever published to cite...

Underneath It All, England Is a Catholic Country

Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England By Joseph Pearce. Ignatius Press, 2022. Paperback, 384 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Auguste Meyrat. England is a Catholic country. Its culture, its politics, and its very heart is Catholic.  At least, this is the case made...

The White Guard: Life Imitating Art, Yet Again

by Dwight Sutherland, Jr. Seldom does one encounter a novel which offers such insight into today’s events. This is particularly true when the novel is based on events that happened over a century ago.  Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian author who was born in Kiev in...

Common Good Credentialism

Common Good Constitutionalism by Adrian Vermeule. Polity, 2022. Hardcover, 270 pages, $59.95. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Thirty years on from its victory over Soviet communism, liberal individualism has shown itself to be a spent force. The drive to “liberate”...

An Infinity of Imperfections

Infinite Regress: A Novel by Joshua Hren. Angelico Press, 2022. Paperback, 296 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. “What he taught me was literally revolutionary in a way that set me free from the last hang-ups of that pablum Mom fed us and wanted us to...

Nationalizing Conservatism

Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony. Regnery Gateway, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by John G. Grove In the introduction to The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk defended his choice of Burke as the originator of modern conservatism: “If one...

Introducing Luke C. Sheahan, editor of the University Bookman

The Russell Kirk Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Luke C. Sheahan, a professor of politics at Duquesne University, as the fifth editor in the history of The University Bookman. As former editor Gerald Rusello did in his time, Luke represents both...

The Present Age of Babel

By Jonathan Yudelman This essay is part of a symposium on the thought of French political thinker Chantal Delsol in light of her latest book, La fin de la Chrétienté or The End of the Christian World. Chantal Delsol’s thought-provoking thesis that we are at the...