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Reviewing Books that Build Culture

What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom

Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, The University Bookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and the constitutional order it secured.

John Lukács: The Consciousness—and Conscience—of an Historian

“Rather, ‘history’ is an irreducibly human cognitive and moral activity that shapes identity, yields personal and collective meaning, and embodies how people understand their present and future. For Lukács, every person is a ‘historian’ because all human persons live with memories and interpretations of their past.”

Continually Revising History

“[The book] is a rich resource for Voegelin scholars to consult for their own academic and intellectual pursuits.”

G. K. Chesterton, Friend of Truth

“Each essay is well worth reading on its own, which should be the case whether you are a trained philosopher or something less—or more—than that.”

Narrating the Future

Narrating the Future

Carl Lawrence Paulus reviews a history of the national grand narratives during a period of great change, the years leading up to the Civil War.

Two Tolkiens on View

Two Tolkiens on View

Alexi Sargeant reviews the exhibit Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth, now at the Morgan Library in New York through May.

Why Make Men Pigs

Why Make Men Pigs

Colleen Curran reviews Madeline Miller’s move from myth to novel as she works with a character from the Odyssey.

A Conflicted Idea of America

Recent Domestic History

Lauren Turek reviews the final section of Jill Lepore’s new history of the United States, covering post–World War II to early Trump.

The Book Gallery

A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition. Click on the icon in the upper right corner of the video to see more episodes in this series or check out our YouTube page.

Register for our next book gallery on June 22, 2026:
Russell Kirk On America: How to Understand the Legacy of 1776

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