The University Bookman

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.

Harvey Mansfield’s Long Dissent

“Mansfield’s central and most important complaint about Harvard… is that its faculty has failed to design or even to articulate the general education that might characterize the educated man.”

Hebraic Ideas at the Founding

“…is there room for Jews and Christians to draw closer together adding Hebraic ideas into the treasury of American self-understanding?”

What We’re Reading

Summer Reading Suggestions

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.

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.

Harvey Mansfield’s Long Dissent
@AdamKissel on "Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell on Deaf Ears" by Harvey C. Mansfield. @EncounterBooks

Hebraic Ideas at the Founding
Daniel James Sundahl on "Jewish Roots of American Liberty: The Impact of Hebraic Ideas on the American Story," Edited By Wilfred McClay and Stuart Halpern.
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