Returning to the Heights of Statesmanship
The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation By Daniel J. Mahoney. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Zachary K. German. “Let us return to the heights,” Daniel J. Mahoney begins the concluding...
Reclaiming Protestantism At Its Best
Protestant Social Teaching: An Introduction Edited by Onsi Aaron Kamel, Jake Meador, and Joseph Minich. The Davenant Press, 2022. Paperback, 270 pages, $26.95. Review by John Ehrett. A popular shibboleth of traditionalist history writing is the notion of a direct line...
On the Fall of Fated Men
The Anglo-Saxons. A History of the Beginnings of England: 400-1066 By Marc Morris. Hutchinson, 2021. Hardcover, 528 pages, $100. Reviewed by Timothy D. Lusch. “Historically speaking, the name ‘Anglo-Saxon’ has more connection to white hoods than boar-decorated...
Society: A Community of Souls
An essay by Frank Filocomo. The conservatism of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk is fundamentally incompatible with an ungrounded and listless libertarian ethos. While Burke and Kirk emphasize the importance of social cohesiveness and community, libertarians vociferously...
The Conservative Mind at 60: Russell Kirk’s Unwritten Constitutionalism
By Gerald Russello. In honor of The University Bookman’s long time editor Gerald Russello, who passed away a year ago this month, we are running Russello’s classic anniversary essay on Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind. The essay first appeared at Law and Liberty,...
"Don Quixote makes life the protagonist. The affirmation of life is truly Don Quixote’s quest. The venerable knight-errant seeks more than life from his life." — Pedro Blas Gonzalez.
Melissa Lane is one of many left-liberal thinkers seeking a middle ground between “canceling” great thinkers and those in the New Right who seek to co-opt them for their postliberal vision. - Jesse Russell