The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
The Grandiose Moralist
Paul Brian is not impressed by David Brooks’s Second Mountain.
A Justified Confessions
Eve Tushnet is surprised to welcome yet another translation of Augustine’s Confessions.
Psychedelic Utopia
Scott Beauchamp reviews T. C. Boyle’s newest novel on a utopian in-group.
The Six Communal Institutions and the Modern Economy
Gerard T. Mundy looks at what James Bloodworth’s Hired reveals about the decline of Western culture’s mediating institutions.
Fault Lines in American Identity
Harrison F. Dietzman reviews a book on what popular culture reveals of thin line between a good American and a good criminal.
Baseball, Out of Time?
Caden McCann reviews Susan Jacoby’s Why Baseball Matters.
The Loyalist Arguments
William Anthony Hay welcomes a fresh assessment of the arguments and methods of Loyalist clergy in the American Revolutionary era.
Placing Chaucer
Carl Rollyson welcomes Marion Turner’s innovative new biography of Chaucer and the spaces he inhabited.
A Life in Liberal Internationalism
Francis P. Sempa reviews a biography of the Wilsonian diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
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