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Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change
For a time, then, coffeehouses exercised a crucial but (today) largely unremarked influence upon the fashioning of Anglo-American civilization. Mr. Reynolds’s fine book seeks to remedy that deficiency.
Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience
When, if ever, should one disobey a law? How should one pursue change in the case of social or legal injustice? Our discourse does not adequately address these questions.
Found in Translation: Capturing the Sublime with Ryan Wilson
Through practice rather than theory, Wilson is recovering a lost way of understanding the charm and power of an anthology, beyond the textbook and vanity projects that have predominated the market over the last century.
The Mysterious Being in the Ring
“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but what is the point of him? He is one of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and perhaps also the most polarizing.”
Forgotten No More—Remembering M. Stanton Evans
“In this biography of Evans, Steven F. Hayward has offered not merely Evans’s story but what amounts to a history of the conservative movement through Stan’s eyes.”
Indignity Human (and Poetic?)
“Merrill…reveals a propensity for fiction not only thought-provoking, but also soul-searching.”
Politics Between History and Eternity
“Far from being an obscure intellectual backwater, the story of the nouvelle theologie and its rivals may illuminate the central animating conflict of Christian political theology as such.”
James Burnham: The Partisan Review Years
“…it was during the Partisan Review years that Burnham honed the analytical skills and political acumen that eventually made him the West’s greatest intellectual Cold Warrior.”
The Meaning of Happiness
David Weinberger reviews How and How Not to Be Happy.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition. Click on the icon in the upper right corner of the video to see more episodes in this series or check out our YouTube page.
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