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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.”

Navigating the “In Between” of Belief

by Rev. Joseph Scolaro | Oct 23, 2022

“…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

by Francis P. Sempa | Oct 16, 2022

“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

by J. L. Wall | Oct 16, 2022

“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?

by Robert Grant Price | Oct 9, 2022

“David Lowenthal finds something new to say about Orwell,,,”

Two Tales of Watergate

by Chuck Chalberg | Oct 9, 2022

“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.”

These Roman Things

by Adam Schwartz | Oct 2, 2022

“As Jones struggled with his ‘technolatrous’ age, he took ancient Rome as a lodestar for navigating ‘this distressful epoch.'”

All That’s Left is This Foundation Stone

by Joshua Hren | Oct 2, 2022

“…these poems provoke us to return and reclaim our prodigal inheritance.”

Where Conservatives Converse

by Gregory L. Schneider | Sep 25, 2022

“It has been nearly sixty years since the founding of the Philadelphia… and its growth and development over the years as an intellectual home for all conservatives who accepted the premise of ordered liberty, is a testimony to the founders and those who have long carried on the legacy of the Society and its principles.”

Whether the Heart Has Its Reasons of Which It Knows Nothing

by Daniel James Sundahl | Sep 25, 2022

Daniel James Sundahl reviews Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment

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