The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
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Enlisting in Meaning
Anthony M. Barr reviews a forthcoming meditation on the quest for meaning in the face of consumerist culture.
Language, Chance, and Science
Gene Callahan is disappointed with John McWhorter’s takedown of popular theories of the influence of language on thought.
History’s Untouchables
Jason Morgan looks at two new books with competing explanations of the atom bombs of World War II.
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 Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
