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...
Upcoming Event: The Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture
On November 15, The University Bookman and friends will hold a memorial lecture in honor of Gerald Russello, longtime editor of The University Bookman. Dr. Dermot Quinn, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Seton Hall University, will speak on Gerald Russello...
The Lost Art of Memento Mori
Meditations on Death: Preparing for Eternity By Thomas à Kempis. Translated by Fr. Robert Nixon, OSB. TAN Books, 2023. Hardcover, 88 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Thomas Banks. To scratch an itch of curiosity, I recently entered the word “Death” into the Amazon search...
"In an age when so many of our inherited institutions seem to be unraveling under the pressures of a restless, self-regarding individualism, it is a rare and welcome thing to encounter a book that speaks with quiet conviction about the things that have long sustained the American
"If classical teachers believe that truth, beauty, and goodness can indeed change the world, then the sort of student (and teacher and school) described by @AnthonyEsolen is a net gain for this world. And his Classical Catechism serves as a helpful tool in building the necessary