The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Watch James Panero of the New Criterion discuss “The Urbanity of Russell Kirk” at the 2025 Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture.
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
When Burke Became Burke
William F. Byrne welcomes Emily Jones’s new intellectual history, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914.
Tipping the State’s Sacred Cows
Jacob Bruggeman reviews Patrick Garry’s brief broadside on The False Promise of Big Government.
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.
