Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul From Mediocrity By Joshua Gibbs. Circe Institute, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28.99 Reviewed by Sarah Reardon. A significant part of Russell Kirk’s legacy is that he reminded moderns to seek and cherish the “permanent things”...
Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh Edited by Thomas W. Holman and Richard Avramenko. Lexington Books, 2025. Hardcover, 266 pages, $115. Reviewed by Grant R. Martsolf. The first time I had ever heard of ChatGPT was in April of...
By Gerald J. Russello. Editors’ Note: The University Bookman honors the fourth anniversary of the passing of its long-time editor, Gerald J. Russello, by republishing this essay on one of Gerald’s favorite subjects: Christopher Dawson. This essay appeared in Faith...
Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation By Christine Kohler. Resource Publications, 2024. Hardcover, 78 pages, $25.00. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Christine Kohler’s poetry debut, Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up, A Poetic Meditation,...
Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics, Second Edition By Nancy Felson. Harvard University Press, 2025. Hardcover, 220 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Until the recent fascination with Cleopatra VII, Helen of Sparta / Troy has been the most readily...
Suicide in Modern Catholic Literature By Martin Lockerd. Cascade Books, 2025. Paperback, 196 pages, $27. Reviewed by John Ehrett. Around the world, assisted suicide—now going under the perverse euphemism “MAID,” or “Medical Assistance In Dying”—has become a...
.@JM_Butcher himself admits that there are in fact important divisions within American society, but he believes that “Americans are united on some very important questions that are driving debates in statehouses, schoolhouses, and even your house.” In this, as in nearly all that
Despite [Kirk's] and others’ efforts to prevent further decline in transcendent beliefs, more than a century later, it is clear that those Americans who adhere to them represent a small and frequently marginalized minority. @fhmcclatchey must be counted among their number, for he