The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
Good Taste May Save the World
Andrew Thompson-Briggs welcomes the completion of the English translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s two-volume Aesthetics.
The Tragedy of American Parenting
Titus Techera looks at the tragic motifs in “the family movie of the year” that wraps up an all-American franchise.
A Timeless History of Public Education
Addison Del Mastro reviews a book on the history of public education with something to offer critics and skeptics alike.
Natural Law Globalism
Jason Morgan welcomes a book reintroducing the life and thought of Japan’s once-renowned Catholic jurist and natural law theorist Tanaka Kōtarō.
A Bishop in France’s Public Square
Samuel Gregg reviews a book from the Archbishop of Paris on natural law in the technological age.
The Function of Criticism in a Time of Entropy
Oliver Spivey reviews a refreshing collection of essays from the literary critic William Giraldi.
The Grandiose Moralist
Paul Brian is not impressed by David Brooks’s Second Mountain.
A Justified Confessions
Eve Tushnet is surprised to welcome yet another translation of Augustine’s Confessions.
Psychedelic Utopia
Scott Beauchamp reviews T. C. Boyle’s newest novel on a utopian in-group.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.