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As you may know, October is Russell Kirk’s birthday month and, in celebration of that, Bookman editors host a lively discussion focused on Kirk’s supernatural fiction each year. We hope to be able to announce the successful conclusion of the annual appeal by All Soul’s Day. As a token of our appreciation, all supporters of this University Bookman campaign will receive a link to a professional audio recording of Kirk’s short story, What Shadows We Pursue.
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Who Are the Enemies of Academic Freedom?
“…the authors’ efforts to defend free speech and academic freedom ultimately fall flat. This is because, for all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of higher learning in America remain within the walls.”
Who’s the Furious One?
“One also comes away from this book with the sense that her allegedly fit-to-be-tied subjects have had no legitimate reason to be concerned or troubled, much less furious, about anything at all in the American body politic. The reigning orthodoxy of liberal pluralism, however that has been packaged and repackaged, apparently had been—and deserves to continue to be—the prevailing story of life in America before, during, and well after what she hopes will soon prove to be little more than a briefly successful outburst on the part of the MAGA right.”
A New Introduction to the Austrian School
“After discussing Menger, the authors go on to present the ideas of subsequent major figures in the history of the Austrian school, including Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Friedrich von Wieser, Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, Israel Kirzner, and Murray Rothbard.”