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Kirktober 2025: James Panero and Adam Simon on the Haunted House
October 28, 2025
On Tuesday, October 28, at 6:00 PM, you are invited to join University Bookman editor Luke Sheahan, Hollywood screenwriter Adam Simon, and New Criterion executive editor James Panero, as they explore the theme of the haunted house in gothic literature and its relationship to conservative thought and imagination.
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The Crisis of Brotherhood and the Need for Heroic Fraternities
“Bradley believes… that we need to take a hard look at the institutional opportunities that still exist to encourage boys to become men of heroic virtue.”
St. Thomas Aquinas With a Southern Drawl
“…Aquinas provides the framework for a new and impressive book on Flannery O’Connor by Fr. Damian Ference…”
The Novel: We Need It
“What is at stake is the development of a sense of humane understanding, and the decline of this form of understanding surely has much to do with the mounting divisiveness and partisanship in our society today.”
Good Economics on a Human Scale
“Alexander Salter has written an important book, examining how the political program of distributism can inform contemporary debates about political economy.”
Romano Guardini: A Man of His Times, A Man for Our Own
“…Guardini offers penetrating insights into what he would describe as the end of the modern world, a time in which he saw an old age fading into a new, now called ‘postmodern,’ one.”
Troublesome Corporeality: Mysticism, Gnosticism, and Sacramentality in The Rabbit Hutch
“Although Gunty openly rejects her Catholic faith, the remnants of her upbringing—especially her fascination with Christian mysticism—pervade The Rabbit Hutch, especially in the life of the novel’s heroine, 18-year-old orphan Blandine Watkins…”
Reading Alone
“[Maspero’s] book, complete with close readings of scripture and heavy helpings of theological and sociological insight, dives deep into the mystery of what it means to be human and how to heal after a trauma like lockdowns.”
Learn to Read Early, Then Read to Learn for the Rest of Your Life
“It is to the immense credit of E. D. Hirsch, Jr., and his colleagues and allies in hundreds of schools and communities, that a real, practicable, early-schooling program exists that may be the saving remnant in our otherwise-demoralizing cultural circumstances.”
How to Turn Back the Clock on Constitutional Law
“[Cooper and Dyer] argue convincingly that… the law of God as understood by Aquinas ought to inform our understanding of the Constitutional order, if we are to be true to our tradition.”
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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