The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The Scientific Case for an Alarming Utopia
Jeffrey Folks reviews Steven Pinker’s unintentionally chilling new book of scientism.

David Bowie and the Decade Science Fiction Took Off
Mark Judge reviews Jason Heller’s fact-heavy tour of pop music and science fiction in the Me Decade.

He Knew the Reason We Fight
Patrick Kurp welcomes Cynthia L. Haven’s new life of René Girard.

This Is Not How We Got Here
Sumantra Maitra is underwhelmed by the evidence presented in Timothy Snyder’s conventional new polemic.

The Neighborliness Not Taken
Ryan Shinkel gleans lessons from the effective new documentary on educational televangelist Fred Rogers.

Pharisees and Neocolonialists
Casey Chalk reviews Obianuju Ekeocha’s Target Africa, exposing the Western forces now pushing leftist ideology in Africa.

The Artist and His Epoch
Adam Schwartz reviews a new collection of the prose of David Jones that reveals his developing critique of the modern world.

Repulsed by the Education Cartel
Elizabeth Bittner reviews Richard Bishirjian’s account of lessons learned from the founding and fall of Yorktown University.

Why Movies are Prayers
Mark Judge celebrates critic Josh Larsen’s Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.