The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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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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Forgetting the Fifth Horseman
Robert Grant Price looks back at Jane Jacobs’s Dark Age Ahead. According to Jacobs, to vanquish darkness a civilization must constantly reinforce the pillars that support it.
The Authority of Reason
“The odds against reason are long,” Marks admits, but the stakes are high and the goal is worthy.
Toward a Moral Vision of Women’s Rights
Nicole M. King reviews Erika Bachiochi’s The Rights of Women.
Is There a Linear Path to America’s Next Civil War?
Anthony Barr reviews The Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
The Beauty of an Integrated Life
Gerald lived that fully human life, despite the depredations of our current age. How? By grounding himself in faith, family, and a definite place — the beleaguered New York City of faithful Italian Catholics.
Gerald Russello, Legal Humanist
Gerald was a rarity in that he energetically lived the Christian virtues he championed. With Josef Pieper, he knew that we are most human when we engage in the humane, and he lived the motto instilled in him by his Jesuit teachers: ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
The Law’s Good Servant, but God’s First
Humility is the foundation of Christian charity. It is little wonder, then, why Gerald was so generous in sharing his time and talents with others.
Lunch Man: A Remembrance of Gerald Russello
Remembering the life of University Bookman editor Gerald Russello
Joseph Kennedy, American Fascist
Carl Rollyson reviews Susan Ronald’s biography of Joseph P. Kennedy.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.