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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.
Register for this free webinar here.
American Hegemony in Higher Education
“…Kirby examines the birth of the research university and its integration with the liberal education model in a global and comparative context.”
The Causes of Moral Agency
“Particularly in these hyper-polarized times, conservatives should be the first to break out of the blame-the-system-versus-blame-the-victim false dichotomy.”
Resurrecting John Keats
“Lucasta Miller, in her brilliant new book on Keats, writes, ‘To read him is to participate in an invisible web that has connected human beings over millennia via the literary imagination.'”
Partisan Citizens
“Citizenship demands open-minded discourse among persons from different backgrounds and with varying ideas in the interest of forming and preserving a consensus concerning the most advisable form of government.”
Navigating the “In Between” of Belief
“…Desmond offers many incisive and rich critiques of an atheistic contemporary world as well as of static and insufficient presentations of religious belief, all from within his particular conceptual framework.”
Richard Weaver Explained Our Cultural Predicament Over 70 Years Ago
“The past shows unvaryingly that when a people’s freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for. That is the dire peril in the present trend toward statism.” – Richard Weaver
The Traditions That Gave Us Homer
“Parry… ultimately became the most influential Classical—and perhaps literary—scholar of the twentieth-century precisely because he was able to side-step the Homeric Question altogether.”
Whose Truth? Whose Power?
“David Lowenthal finds something new to say about Orwell,,,”
Two Tales of Watergate
“To commemorate the fifty year mark we now have not one, but two, new books to add to the ever-mounting bibliography of Watergate-related tomes.”
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
Join us tomorrow night as @JamesPanero, Adam Simon, and @lsheahan discuss the Haunted House on the Book Gallery at 6pm ET: https://buff.ly/tRXeumD
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