Special Offer on the Chesterton Review

Special Offer on the Chesterton Review

by | Feb 28, 2011

Dear Bookman Reader, One of the rare bright spots in contemporary publishing is the prestigious literary and cultural journal The Chesterton Review, now celebrating its 37th anniversary of uninterrupted publication. To honor this milestone, they are pleased to bring...

The Quality of Our Imaginations

by | Feb 27, 2011

A conversation with Gary L. Gregg.The University Bookman is pleased to present this interview with Gary L. Gregg, II, who holds the Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership at the University of Louisville, where he directs the McConnell Center. He is the author or editor...

Rescuing the Past

by | Feb 27, 2011

The Iona Conspiracy by G. L. Gregg. Winged Lion Press, 2010, 432 pp., $18. The Iona Conspiracy, the sequel to Dr. Gary Gregg’s novel The Sporran, is a gripping tale which follows the adventures of thirteen-year-old Jacob Boyd. In the previous book, Jacob came to...

The Faith of Men of Letters

by | Feb 27, 2011

Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century by Russell Kirk. Sherwood Sugden and Company, Publishers (La Salle, Ill.), 1984. xii + 476 pp. $12.95 paper. Second edition with an introduction by Benjamin G. Lockerd Jr., ISI Books, 2008....

Champion of Faith and Common Sense

by | Feb 27, 2011

Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life & Impact of G. K. Chesterton by Kevin Belmonte. Thomas Nelson, 2011, $16.99, 318 pages Many years ago, this reviewer attended a weekend stay at the home of a prominent historian and Roman Catholic gentleman, to assess his personal...

Lincoln and the Dignity of the Presidency

by | Feb 24, 2011

The Roman Republic was at the back of the minds of the framers of the American Constitution; it was their hope that the chief magistrate of these United States would conduct himself with “the high old Roman virtue,” becoming an exemplar of pietas, gravitas,...

A Guide to Voegelin’s Thought

by | Feb 20, 2011

Eric Voegelin’s Search for Order in History edited by Stephen A. McKnight. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. 209 pp. [Expanded edition, 1987, 252 pp.] In the spring of 1953, Time magazine published a long review-essay entitled “Journalism and...

Conserving Liberty Online Lectures

by | Feb 14, 2011

The New Centurion Leadership Program has begun a monthly live broadcast on UStream with eight lectures on “Conserving Liberty” and focusing on Russell Kirk and F. A. Hayek. In January, Senior Fellow Gleaves Whitney introduced Kirk’s life and work, focusing on The...

Terror and the ‘Market State’

by | Feb 13, 2011

Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century by Philip Bobbitt (New York: A. A. Knopf, 2008) x + 672 pp, $35.00 (cloth).Phillip Bobbitt thinks big. In the 552 pages of the text of Terror and Consent, he displays a mastery of terrorism, intelligence,...