Right Populism
The Conservative Affirmation By Willmoore Kendall. Regnery, 2022. Paperback, 432 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Benjamin Clark. First published in 1963, Willmoore Kendall’s The Conservative Affirmation remains an under-read classic of conservative theory and political...
Squeezing Out Virtue and Beauty
Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education By Mary C. Wright. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 296 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The most recent permanent fixtures on college campuses are Centers of Teaching...
It All Began in Old Mill Basin, Brooklyn: A Tribute to Gerald J. Russello on the Second Anniversary of His Death
By Gerard T. Mundy. On November 7, 2021, Gerald J. Russello, editor of The University Bookman for sixteen years and a man whose jolly heart seemed so often to be in the right place, died too young. Exuding a contagious type of positivity regardless of the situation,...
Kennan: The Fallible Prophet We Need
George Kennan for Our Time By Lee Congdon. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa. The United States in the early 21st century, Lee Congdon writes, suffers from a wayward internationalist foreign policy...
Cities, as Social Science Sees Them
The Future of Cities Edited by Joel Kotkin and Ryan Streeter. American Enterprise Institute, 2022. Reviewed by Mark G. Brennan. Those who care about the future of cities need to pay attention to Chapman University Urban Futures Fellow Joel Kotkin. The New York Times...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."