The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Sources for Rebuilding
Anthony M. Barr looks at a few other voices that could contribute to the conversation started by Yuval Levin’s A Time to Build.

The Winter Sportsmen-Soldiers
Bill Meehan reviews a real-life Alpine adventure from World War II.

The Elon Musk of Botany Bay?
Karl C. Schaffenburg reviews an uneven biography of the great botanist Joseph Banks.

Enlightening the Masses
Luke Nicastro reviews a book that does not quite explain the failure of the Enlightenment.

Liberty, or Liberties, or Leviathan?
Jeffrey J. Folks reviews a book on the lives behind our current understanding of the U.S. Constitution.

A Quarantine Reading Journal
Eric Hutchinson shares his pandemic reading journal, a mix of memorial, reflection, and therapeutic laughter.

On Goats, and What to Do
Karl C. Schaffenburg welcomes an engaging book on what farming can teach us about the difference between technical capacity and wisdom.

What Lasch Knew
Jon K. Lauck reviews a novel on the progressive misdiagnosis of Kansas.

Tool, Mirror, Goad: What Is Christian Legal Thought For?
Gerald J. Russello welcomes a provocative new casebook on Christian legal thinking.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.