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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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Order and the Market
The Commercial Society: Foundations and Challenges in a Global Age by Samuel Gregg. Lexington Books (Lanham, Maryland), 190 pp. cloth, $75.00; paper, $18.00, 2007. Traditional conservatives have not always been friendly to the market economy. Some, like John Ruskin,...
The Traditionalist Moment
Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (Or At Least the Republican Party)...
Bookman in Colombia
On December 15, El Heraldo, one of Colombia's largest newspapers, published a Spanish version of Michael J. Ard's review, "Latin America's Five Deadly Sins," which appeared in our Spring 2007 issue. Here is the link.
Bookman Web Exclusives
We are pleased to announce web-only reviews as a new feature of the University Bookman. This new content will enable us to reach our readers more regularly with reviews of notable books, interviews, and other features. Our first online feature—ironically—is a review...
About our Web Exclusives
We are pleased to announce web-only reviews as a new feature of the Bookman. This new content will enable us to reach our readers more regularly with reviews of notable books, interviews, and other features. Check back often for new exclusive content!
Man and His Eschatological Destiny
Andy Catlett: Early Travels by Wendell Berry. Shoemaker and Hoard (Emeryville, California), 160 pp., $23.00 cloth, 2006.Wendell Berry is a writer/philosopher who has taken up his pen to examine the question, what is the purpose of human existence? He succeeds at his...
Reassessing Homo Economicus
It has been some years since the University Bookman has tackled issues relating to the economy. In the interim, new scholarship has continued to demolish the god-term “economic man,” that modernist construct of utilitarian calculation and rational self-interest. Such...
New Bookman and Barzun
The new issue of the University Bookman is on its way. Featuring a special section on the humane economy, the issue includes reviews of books on agrarianism, Wendell Berry, Tocqueville, the commercial society, and other subjects. As a preview, here is Tracy Lee...
Books in Little
A Loeb Classical Library Reader (Harvard University Press, 234 pp.) The Loeb series of Latin and Greek texts, bound in their distinctive red and green, respectively, has been a standby for readers of the classics for generations. While other series are more focused on...
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
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