The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture

Politics and Poetics: Educating Wise Statesmen
Christopher Fisher reviews a collection of essays on the necessary connection between Shakespeare and statesmanship.

No Mere Textbook
Bruce P. Frohnen welcomes Wilfred M. McClay’s major new book of American history.

Reagan’s Consistent Cheerful Convictions
William F. Meehan III reviews a thoroughly researched and accessible new collection of the personal writings of Ronald Reagan.

On the Rebuilding of Notre-Dame
James Atkins Pritchard digs deeper into the reasons we should rebuild the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

John L. Connelly: In Memoriam
John P. McCarthy remembers the life and legacy of one of the great educators, John L. Connelly.

Attacking the Idols of the Elites
Titus Techera reviews the final book of Tom Wolfe, an American hero.

Writer as Goad
Carl Rollyson reviews Adina Hoffman’s biography of filmmaker and agitator Ben Hecht.

Thucydides’s Challenge
Nick Burns welcomes a new edition of Thucydides focused on the question of persuasion.

The Same City
Tom Johnson writes an appreciation and farewell to Fr. James V. Schall.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.