Ulyssean Interrogations at Dusk, or Slowing Down at 65
By John Rodden. Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done…. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. …for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...
What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A Russell Kirk Center Special Series Throughout the semiquincentennial year celebrating America’s independence, The University Bookman will invite a range of writers and speakers to contribute to a series drawing upon Russell Kirk’s work on the American Revolution and...
From the Man Who Loved America
Fighting Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Legacy of Angelo M. Codevilla Edited by Ryan P. Williams. Encounter Books, 2025. Hardcover, 128 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. If the title of this collection of essays written in memory of and tribute to the...
Smithian Wisdom on Demand
Just Sentiments: 22 Smithian Essays Edited by Daniel B. Klein and Erik W. Matson. CL Press/Fraser Institute, 2024. Paperback, 262 pages, $7.50 (free PDF download) Reviewed by Michael Munger. Just Sentiments is a curated, teachable set of serious interpretive essays....
In Praise of Poetry and Form
The Great Game: Essays on Poetics By Amit Majmudar. Acre Books, 2024. Paperback, 288 pages, $18. Reviewed by Steven Knepper. Literature, Amit Majmudar warns, must never plod: “Plodding prose, plodding thought, rhythmless lifeless stuff you can’t step to: that’s...
"A more than occasional glutton for punishment, Field dips into and out of conservative conferences, the better to enable herself to assert herself into this story. No doubt those on the left will be mostly pleased by what they read in these pages, while those on the right will
[F]or all their handwringing about the red-state barbarians at the gates, Chemerinsky and Gillman cannot or will not see what their own argument and their own evidence of student, faculty, and administrator behavior show to even a mildly attentive reader: The greatest enemies of