The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Niebuhr on the Crisis of Our Civilization
Francis P. Sempa finds that Reinhold Niebuhr has guidance for our political-spiritual crisis.
A Syrian Islamist Reads Arabic Literature for the First Time
Sam Sweeney reads Kahlil Gibran along with a recently captured Syrian Islamist.
Feudalism Without a Soul
Casey Chalk reviews Joel Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism.
Quasi-Religious Parenting
Melissa Langsam Braunstein reviews Christian Smith’s Religious Parenting.
The Never-Ending Threat of Utopia
Robert Grant Price reviews Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism.
The President’s Hidden Hand
Michael J. Ard reviews Annie Jacobsen’s Surprise, Kill, Vanish.
An Ambitious Forgotten President
Brian Cervantez reviews President Without a Party, Christopher Leahy’s new biography of John Tyler.
Beha’s Capacity for God: Sophie Wilder Revisited
Joshua Hren revisits Christopher Beha’s first novel, What Happened to Sophie Wilder.
A Plutarchian Life of Brown and Lincoln
Carl Rollyson reviews H. W. Brands’s The Zealot and the Emancipator.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.