Still Believing and Singing
I Still Believe: A Memoir By Jeremy Camp and David Thomas. Thomas Nelson, 2020. Paperback, 256 pages, $18.99. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. Towards the end of the film I Still Believe, Jeremy Camp is distraught over the death of his wife, Melissa, whom he had hoped would...
Higher Ed and the Crisis of Civic Despair
Renewing America’s Civic Compact Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2023. Hardcover, 258 pages, $100. Reviewed by Thomas Kelly. For many 2024 carries with it a very real sense of civic despair. There is of course the “dread” that many feel...
Citizenship Matters
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback, 326 pages, $42.99. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley have edited a wonderful collection of essays about topics related...
The Mind Of Middle-Earth: Exploring The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition Edited by Humphrey Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien. William Morrow, 2023. Hardcover, 432 pages, $40. Reviewed by Isaiah Flair. It is always a privilege to travel through the articulate mind of the man who...
Swimming in the Secular Fishbowl
Practicing Christians, Practical Atheists: How Cultural Liturgies and Everyday Social Practices Shape the Christian Life By Phil Davignon. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 158 pages, $22. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What are the biggest factors driving...
JP O’Malley Interviews Author Joseph Berger
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence (Jewish Lives) By Joseph Berger. Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover, 360 pages, $26. Joseph Berger published Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence early last year. The University Bookman contributor JP O’Malley caught up with...
Why America Needs to Rediscover American Exceptionalism
Radical Betrayal: How Liberals & Neoconservatives Are Wrecking American Exceptionalism By Anders W. Edwardsson. Defiance Press & Publishing, 2023. Paperback, 330 pages, $17.89. Reviewed by John Hendrickson. Anders Edwardsson in Radical Betrayal: How Liberals...
Portrait of an Artist
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris By Alicia Foster. Thames & Hudson, 2023. Hardcover, 272 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by Sean McGlynn. The work of the Welsh artist Gwen John (1876-1939) has recently re-emerged from relative obscurity. This is due to two fine...
Against the New Deal
New Deal Rebels: An Anthology of Critics of the New Deal Edited by Amity Shlaes. American Institute for Economic Research, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $18. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. From the vantage point of roughly seven decades of depression-less prosperity, Amity...
.@JM_Butcher himself admits that there are in fact important divisions within American society, but he believes that “Americans are united on some very important questions that are driving debates in statehouses, schoolhouses, and even your house.” In this, as in nearly all that
Despite [Kirk's] and others’ efforts to prevent further decline in transcendent beliefs, more than a century later, it is clear that those Americans who adhere to them represent a small and frequently marginalized minority. @fhmcclatchey must be counted among their number, for he