The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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The Decline of the Liberal Imagination
The two dominant systems of thought in our time are conservatism and liberalism. Of course, there are many variants of the two, but with the demise of Marxism, they remain the principal political movements vying for ascendancy over the minds of men. In the previous...
Permanence and Change
By Russell Kirk From Prospects for Conservatives (Regnery Gateway edition, 1989) he liveliest definition of the word conservative is Ambrose Bierce's in The Devil's Dictionary: "Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as...
Returning ‘To the Point’
Russell Kirk, as every reader of the University Bookman knows well, was a man of letters. Kirk’s books, essays, lectures, reviews, and stories deservedly have received much attention, but he is not known today as a columnist. I thought this was a shame, since surely...
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
