The University Bookman

Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Revivifying the Conservative Movement

“Roberts has perceived the deep and fundamental crisis within the American body politic, and that crisis is a spiritual crisis.”

The Centrality of Civic Virtue

“A just polity grows as we acquire a moral sense, which fosters attitudes and actions of benevolence toward others…”

Revivifying the Conservative Movement

“Roberts has perceived the deep and fundamental crisis within the American body politic, and that crisis is a spiritual crisis.”

Virtuous Living, Not Just for Philosophers

“Abela refers to both the cardinal virtues and their many subsidiary virtues as ‘super habits’ in order to tap into the popularity of recent books about the importance of habit formation.”

A Gentleman Out of Moscow

by Robert Bellafiore | May 19, 2024

“Maddocks is an able guide as she wanders through the adventures, disappointments, and adjustments that Rachmaninoff would experience from his escape in 1917 to his death in 1943.”

Taking the Road Less Traveled

by A. M. Juster | May 19, 2024

“Rattelle’s lyrical poems… echo Frost both in obvious ways and in their inventiveness within the constraints of form.”

To Recover Is to Return

by Jeffrey Folks | May 19, 2024

“The decline [Esolen] has diagnosed is not merely a shift in cultural tastes or even a change in values; it is a near total loss of what it means to be human.

Gerald Russello and the Art of Memory

by Dermot Quinn | May 12, 2024

This essay was delivered as a memorial lecture at Fordham University, New York, on November 15, 2023.

Claiming the Classical Tradition

by Sean C. Hadley | May 12, 2024

“The book stands as a powerful argument that the Classical Tradition has been essential to the lived Black experience in the United States for four centuries. And consequently, the book asserts that any attempts to deny such a connection severs Black Americans from a heritage to which they owe much and from which they will find a treasure trove of wisdom.”