The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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 Christian and Classical Roots of American Order
“When claiming the heritage of the traditional rights of Englishmen, Americans were not claiming mere privileges of political or national affiliation, but natural rights born of moral constraints upon the powers of the sovereign…”
Recovering the Founders’ Constitutional Order
“The founders, in their affirmation of the rule of law and the principle of consent, resoundingly rejected modernity’s embrace of unlimited and largely arbitrary state power. Such a rejection depends ultimately on man being made in the image and likeness of the Christian creator God…”
The Book Gallery
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Kirk saw poetry, fiction, tradition, and restraint as essential to understanding America and preserving its character. In his review of "On America," @cjscalia explores Kirk’s vision of the founding, statesmanship, literature, and the enduring ideas that have shaped the republic.
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