The University Bookman

Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Defending the Christian Faith

“In 100 Tough Questions For Catholics: Common Obstacles To Faith Today… David G. Bonagura, Jr. gives bite-sized answers to dozens of big questions about the faith.”

Spring is drawing to a close. Summer is upon us. That means it’s time for summer reading. Luke C. Sheahan, Editor nce final grades are submitted, and I’ve rested, I begin my trek through a summer booklist. At the top is always Cormac McCarthy’s...

Reagan vs. the Air Traffic Controllers

“The book traces President Reagan’s decision to fire the striking Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) workers… Busch argues throughout that the PATCO strike deserves much more attention than it has previously attracted.”

Reappraising Woodrow Wilson

“…it is hardly a biography at all. If anything, it is a history of the painfully gradual process of finally securing the right to vote for American women.”

A Story of Redemption in Washington

by Staff | Sep 30, 2011

A conversation with Tim Goeglein.Timothy S. Goeglein is currently Vice President of External Relations at Focus on the Family and a Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington. Before that he served in the White House of President George W. Bush as a...

Russello in the WSJ

by Staff | Sep 26, 2011

Gerald Russello reviews Michael Toth's book on founding father Oliver Ellsworth in the Wall Street Journal: “Uniting the Nation.”

Imaginative Conservative series and other items of note

by Staff | Sep 26, 2011

A few items to call to your attention: • Our friends at The Imaginative Conservative are running a series of posts on "books that make us human" that's well worth a look. • They also ran an item recently on early work of Russell Kirk and his libertarian or merely...

Old Roads and Montesquieu’s Library

by James V. Schall, S. J. | Sep 25, 2011

On Essays and LettersStudents of mine travel. Not a few of them manage to send me a note or a card, especially when they run across something they read in class or something they thought Schall would enjoy seeing. “I am currently in France,” a recently graduated...

A Child’s Imagination is a Terrible Thing to Waste

by Staff | Sep 25, 2011

Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen (ISI Books, November 2010), 320 pp., $26.95.“A good book is a dangerous thing. . . . It carries within it the possibility . . . of cracking open the shell of routine that prevents us from seeing the...

And the Tragedy Continues

by Staff | Sep 18, 2011

Symposium: Conservatism and EmpireTen years on, September 11 is a tragedy that continues to break hearts. Family and friends continue to mourn loved ones whose lives were cut short. Many, many Americans mourn the loss of our long and closely held illusion that our...

How the GOP swallowed the Conservative Movement

by Staff | Sep 18, 2011

Symposium: Conservatism and EmpireThe state of “American conservatism” can be fully appreciated by turning on FOX News and then listening to Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, or Bill Kristol present their customary civics lesson. One supposedly becomes a conservative by...

Empire and the Crisis of American Conservatism

by Staff | Sep 18, 2011

Symposium: Conservatism and EmpireConservatism is the will to remain true to type, so American conservatism is a preference for America to remain American. In most ways that makes it a conservatism like any other. America is a particular society, and as such connects...

Metternich vs. McEmpire

by Staff | Sep 18, 2011

Symposium: Conservatism and EmpireConservatism is poorly understood in the United States. It is not right-wing liberalism or nationalism; nor is it political Protestantism. It has nothing to do with a neurotic longing for an ideal past, and reactionaries who insist...