The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The Surprise of Order
John Tuttle reviews John-Mark Miravalle’s Beauty.

The World the Habsburgs Built
Avi Woolf reviews The Habsburgs, by Martin Rady.

Academe’s Poisoned Groves
Lee Oser reviews John Ellis’s The Breakdown of Higher Education.

Ishmael’s Real Name Was Jonah
Will Hoyt offers a reassessment of Herman Melville’s later works.

Discouraging Charity
Daniel James Sundahl reviews Howard Husock’s Who Killed Civil Society?

The Order that Transcends the Upheavals
David G. Bonagura, Jr. reviews Christopher Dawson’s essay collections, The Persistence of Order.

‘The Real World Is the World of the Permanent Things’
James Person helps the Kirk Center commemorate the centennial of the birth of Ray Bradbury.

The Unwritten Constitution
Luke C. Sheahan reviews Lawler and Reinsch’s A Constitution in Full.

Great Power Competition Is Like a Bad Designer Drug
Anthony M. Barr reviews We Built Reality by Jason Blakely.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.