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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom

Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, The University Bookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and the constitutional order it secured.

The Audacious Russell Kirk

“Neither Eliot nor Kirk would justify surrender in the face of conflict, especially when order in the commonwealth is at stake.”

The Imaginative Russell Kirk

“Michael Lucchese has gathered 17 essays in which Kirk discusses not only the Founding, but also the nation that the Revolution created, the distinctive nature of the people who imagined and developed it, and the traditions they inherited and adapted.”

Remembering Robert Fagles: From Suffering to Meaning

“[Fagles] took as the essence of tragedy Aeschylus’s phrase ‘pathei mathos,’ ‘learning via suffering,’ which contained in it the belief that we could reap a harvest of knowledge from the pain.”

Reagan as Peacemaking Cold Warrior

by Jason C. Phillips | Jul 2, 2023

“Inboden’s work does a lot to explain this dichotomy as part of Reagan’s larger vision: to exploit the weaknesses in the Soviet system while building up American strength with the goal of causing a collapse in the Soviet system.”

Oh Yeah Baby Eat It

by Robert Grant Price | Jun 25, 2023

“Bottum’s voice is confident and idiosyncratic, playful and wise, plainspoken and deliberate, concerned with dramas large and dramas small.”

The Wisdom of Medieval Scholasticism

by David Weinberger | Jun 25, 2023

“The book not only makes a worthy contribution to anyone interested in understanding Medieval philosophy and the thought of Duns Scotus, but to everybody seeking to deepen their appreciation of human existence and its place in ultimate reality.”

Political Theology for Realists

by Zachary Yost | Jun 25, 2023

“…even those who might diverge theologically will find this work to be an extremely useful short primer on the history of Christian political thought.”

Cormac McCarthy Symposium

by Luke C. Sheahan | Jun 18, 2023

An Introduction to a Symposium on Cormac McCarthy

The Duty of the Craftsman: Beauty and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy

by Brent Walter Cline | Jun 18, 2023

“While McCarthy cannot abide optimistic visions of the world, even his most pessimistic moments are checked by beauty and goodness.”

The Law for Man and the Law for Thing: The Political Theory of Cormac McCarthy

by Michael Federici | Jun 18, 2023

“McCarthy’s portrayal of moral responsibility is better understood from the perspective of the early-twentieth-century literary critic Irving Babbitt…”

As Likely to End the World as to Save It: Knowledge and Science in Cormac McCarthy

by Philip D. Bunn | Jun 18, 2023

“Man’s pursuit of knowledge and his use of that knowledge to modify and mar the earth and to harm other men is a fairly constant theme in McCarthy’s oeuvre.”

Learning from the Habsburg Mystique

by David G. Bonagura, Jr. | Jun 11, 2023

“In these evocative tales we see the goal toward which all seven rules are directed: to love, honor, and serve God in this life so that we may be happy forever with Him in the next.”

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