What Does Athens Have to Do with America?
Ancient Greece and American Conservatism: Classical Influence on the Modern Right By John Bloxham. I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Hardcover, 284 pages, $99 (Paperback, $40). Reviewed by Grant Havers The application of ancient Greek thought and history to...
Persuasion in the Age of Twitter
How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated and edited by James M. May. Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover, 288 pages, $17. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. It is no secret that American public...
The Best Classical Latin Poet You’ve Never Heard Of
The Elegies of Maximianus translated by A. M. Juster. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Hardcover, 240 pages, $65. MICHAEL FONTAINE Before he killed himself, I befriended an old man some years ago who had published several books on the right to death and the...
A Coat of Varnish
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. Hardcover, 592 pages, $40. Reviewed by John Byron Kuhner Genius, said Goethe, reveals itself under conditions of constraint; great minds gather strength from limitation, be it the keys...
Barry Cooper's review of THE GROWTH OF THE LIBERAL SOUL is available on the @ubookman page at: https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/after-ideology-but-before-the-revolution-the-liberal-soul/
I'm pleased to see the University Bookman running a small symposium on a new book (or a new edition of an old book) by David Walsh, whose work remains essential amidst debates over liberalism. Personally, Walsh's influence has kept me from going full post-liberal.