The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Thinking as a Human Being
“…the world we are involved in is cognitively sorted by us according to the purposes and concerns of our form of life, which is in turn… shaped by the structures, traditions and worldviews in which we bodily participate. This poses a major challenge for AI…”
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma published The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II early last year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley caught up with Mr. Buruma to discuss his latest book.
Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps
“[The book] conveys strong reasons to admire the founders: they trained and emerged in a relatively meritocratic political system, and understood demography, economic policy, and strategy…”
Imprisoned by the Internet
“…James’s volume is an accessible invitation to consider the possibility that the internet as such—wholly apart from any particular content—is forming people in essentially malign ways.”
An Unsettling Sense of Justice
“…Mendenhall composes a compelling story highlighting the gray gaps where the law has not the acuity to locate justice…”
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Thomas Harding
“The numerous books that George Weidenfeld helped publish ‘transformed western culture and have stood the test of time…'”
Saint Una and the Women Who Made Saint Augustine
“…Cooper’s work is part biography and part cultural history when she reflects on the four women who dance across Augustine’s heart and soul and the pages of the Confessions.”
The U.S. Constitution and Slavery
“…these works by Gilhooley and Watkins might be better framed not simply as critiques of the Philadelphia Constitution or of the original intent of its framers, but as critiques of the American experiment with popular constitutionalism itself.”
Draining the Swamp
“What can be easily detected in these pages is Bernhardt’s skepticism, doubts, and concerns about the role of experts and expertise within the administrative state.”
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.
@lsheahan, @DavidGBonaguraJ, @darrellfalconbu
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.
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