The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
James Burnham: Marxist, 1933–1940
Francis P. Sempa looks at James Burnham’s Marxist period for themes that shaped The Managerial Revolution and The Machiavellians.
The Heart of Progress
Luma Simms reviews Matthew Slaboch’s Road to Nowhere.
Theodore Roosevelt and Statecraft for a World Power
First in a new series, Jack Beyrer reconsiders Walter Zimmerman’s First Great Triumph.
A Common Good Conservatism for the Common Man
Anthony Hennen reviews the new edition of the Coolidge autobiography.
The Making of a Cold War President
Jason K. Duncan reviews Fredrik Logevall’s JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century.
Diagnosing a New Despotism
Jeffrey Folks welcomes Roger Kimball’s collection, Who Rules? Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.
Fusionism, Gratitude, and the New Right
James Davenport reviews Donald J. Devine’s The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order.
A Singular Universal
Adam Schwartz reviews Richard Greene’s biography of Graham Greene.
Ordinary Time
Daniel James Sundahl reflects on Paul Mariani’s The Mystery of It All.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.