The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The Sources of Russian Aggression
Sumantra Maitra reviews two books on Russia from Stent and Åslund.

Tories and True Believers
Derek Turner reviews Ed West’s Small Men on the Wrong Side of History.

A Paean to Craftsmanship
J. L. Wall welcomes A. E. Stallings’s new translation of Hesiod’s Works and Days.

From Caliphate to Nation States
Garrett Robinson reviews Louër’s political history, Sunni and Shi’a.

Is Singapore the Future?
Gilbert NMO Morris reviews Dambisa Moyo’s Edge of Chaos.

Our Robotic Future
Faith Bottum reviews Jonathan Waldman’s robotics SAM.

An Architect Reconsiders ‘The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom’
A classic essay by Russell Kirk inspired this commentary by architect Erik Bootsma, assessing the state of architectural design and urban planning in America today.

A Landmark Tragedy
Matthew M. Robare reviews a history of New York’s Original Penn Station.

Mobocracy and the Founding
Jason Ross reviews T. H. Breen’s The Will of the People
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.