The University Bookman

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.

“The pieces are set primarily at Hadas’s house in rural northern Vermont, and the house itself becomes the intersection where the tangible and intangible, the present and past, even prose and poetry, inextricably blend.”

“If modern technology is making it increasingly possible to have the opportunities for leisure that Athenian citizens had, then there has never been a better time to rediscover this forgotten ideal.”

“Blair, as Dempsey notes, certainly fit the bill of a radical. The notion that slavery’s expansion needed to cease—the Lincolnian proposition—was far too mild for him; he wanted to kill slavery where it was, and he nurtured a burgeoning community of like-minded institutions—civic, educational, political, and religious—in Michigan.”