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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.

Beyond the Tithe: Unearthing Two Millennia of Christian Political Economy

“Themes of wealth, poverty, and greed pervade early Christian writing about markets. So, too, do concerns about justice in price, profit, and lending at interest.”

Brent Bozell’s Prophecy of Judicial Imperium at 60

“Bozell’s powerful insight was to show precisely why judicial supremacy, as it fully emerged under the Warren Court, was such a dangerous and ominous threat to the American constitutional order.”

Who Are the Enemies of Academic Freedom?

“…the authors’ efforts to defend free speech and academic freedom ultimately fall flat. This is because, for all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of higher learning in America remain within the walls.”

In Dialogue, We Dwell

by Gilbert NMO Morris | Mar 26, 2023

“…political sentiment in America has atrophied to ‘factionalism,’ or precisely that against which James Madison warned in Federalist No. 10…”

Shakespeare and the Real

by Michael Yost | Mar 19, 2023

“…Shakespeare has indeed become, like the body of Patroclus, the center of one of the most violent skirmishes in the larger battle that rages over the gargantuan remains of the West.”

Can We Trust the Gospels?

by David Weinberger | Mar 19, 2023

“…McGrew contends not only that there is strong external evidence for the God of the New Testament… but that there is also good internal evidence—the information conveyed in the biblical accounts corresponds to what we know about the way truthful people talk and write.”

Betting on Catastrophe

by Mark G. Brennan | Mar 12, 2023

“…who better than The New Criterion’s bench of deep thinkers to mull over James Burnham’s hypothesis—’Suicide is probably more frequent than murder as the end phase of a civilization’—with respect to Christendom’s funereal prospects.”

Here Comes Everybody: A New Survey of American Catholicism

by Rev. Anthony D. Andreassi | Mar 12, 2023

“…historian Christopher Shannon… attemts[s] to tell the story of Catholic life in North America over the last five centuries in little more than five hundred pages.”

The War for the Second Age

by Ben Reinhard | Mar 5, 2023

“At its core… Sibley’s volume is the story of a Fall, and as such gives readers unparalleled insight into the moral underpinnings of Tolkien’s world.”

The Founders and the Constitution on Religious Liberty

by Thomas G. West | Mar 5, 2023

“In short, without freedom of association, there can be no effective right to religious liberty in the common sense meaning of that term…”

Pat Buchanan and an America First Foreign Policy

by Francis P. Sempa | Feb 26, 2023

“…Buchanan was right more often than wrong. His weekly literary pugilism will be missed as he retires his syndicated column.”

The Electoral Triumph of the New Deal

by John Hendrickson | Feb 19, 2023

“One of the strengths of Pietrusza’s writing is that his narrative tells a story that brings to life the individuals, issues, and events that shaped the 1936 campaign. “

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