The University Bookman
Reviewing Books that Build Culture
A Dreadful Joy Is Conjured
Stephen Schmalhofer reviews the first collection of Russell Kirk’s ghostly tales, The Princess of All Lands.
A Most Hospitable Benedict Option
Gracy Olmstead welcomes Leah Libresco’s practical and inviting new book on living the Benedict Option.
Hope When There’s Nowhere to Hide
Ryan Shinkel highlights hopeful signs in the summer’s hit horror film, A Quiet Place.
The First Church of Cinema
Jacob Bruggeman makes the case for cinema as America’s religion.
The Presence of the Counterkingdom
Adam Schwartz welcomes Alan Jacobs’s new book on the great World War II Christian humanists.
The Unexpected Political Philosopher
Casey Chalk reviews a new collection of the political writings of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
The Love of Living
Father Schall explores an essay of Robert Louis Stevenson on courage and death, and the need to love living, rather than mere life.
The Life Behind the Dance
James Baresel reviews a new biography of the English novelist Anthony Powell.
What We Once Knew About Global Influence
Francis P. Sempa reviews a book on the effective maritime front of the Cold War.
The Book Gallery
A collection of conversations with Bookman editor Luke C. Sheahan and writers and authors of imagination and erudition.
Here, Kirk references with approval MacIntryre's argument from "After Virtue" on the need for "communities of character."
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?" https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/04/russell-kirk-civilization-without-religion.html
At the passing of the great Alasdair MacIntyre, one would do well to return to Russell Kirk' s classic essay "Civilization without Religion?"
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