The Soul Always Takes Priority
Now and at the Hour of Our Death: Making Moral Decisions at the End of Life By Nikolas T. Nikas and Bruce W. Green. Ignatius, 2024. Paperback, 213 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Grant Price. While washing the dishes, I listened to a shock jock philosophize about...
Early Modern Queens
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power By Leah Redmond Chang. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023. Hardcover, 512 pages, $35.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. In the Anglophone world, there is one (and only one) Renaissance queen: Elizabeth Tudor....
The Waters of Ius and Freedom
Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy Michael C. Hawley. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 264 pages, $97. Reviewed by Samuel Sprunk. In Natural Law Republicanism: Cicero’s Liberal Legacy, Michael Hawley joins one of the most intellectually...
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...
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