The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Sowing Seeds in Useless Fields
“The drawing and quartering of liberal arts is the death of learning. The politics of special interests and the politicization of classrooms by activists posing as educators tilts the classroom towards indoctrination, ‘the dark and evil twin of teaching.'”

Comics and Kids: A Review of Freiheit!
“Recently, I interviewed my nine-year-old son, Ezra, to learn what he liked about [Freiheit!], and graphic novels in general.” – Jeffrey Wald

Christopher Dawson and Cultural Crisis
“Stuart makes the case for Dawson as one of the most significant sociologists of culture in the twentieth century.”

Christopher Dawson on the Causes of Culture
“Dawson’s greatest virtue… is a non-ideological focus on how religion plays a central role in cultural unity.”

The Cultured Mind of Christopher Dawson
“Always in [Dawson’s] work is a sense of the creative interactions between religion and culture, between past and present, between man and his environment, between the material and the spiritual. Dawson had the confidence and humility of a polymath.”

Theologian of the Heart
On the passing of Pope Benedict XVI, we rerun this review essay by Religion Editor David Bonagura, which was originally published on October 20, 2008.

Take and Read, Lest You Forget: The Enduring Value of Old Books
In celebration of Christmas, The University Bookman presents to you the keynote address delivered by John Emmet Clarke on November 14, 2022, at an event in honor of former Bookman editor Gerald Russello at Regis High School in New York City.

More Than a Commercial Republic
“Given recent ideological and partisan shifts, Gregg argues, America today faces a choice between the path of free markets or state capitalism.”

The Moral and Cultural Basis of the Free Market
“Gregg wrestles with the problems and economic debates of our time and offers a commercial republic as a compelling alternative to our current economic malaise and national moroseness.”
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