Betting on Catastrophe
Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads Edited by Roger Kimball. Encounter Books, 2022. Hardcover, 232 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Mark G. Brennan. The smart money would bet that many of The University Bookman’s omnilegent devotees have already read The New...
In Defense of Maintenance
The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work that Matters Most By Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell. Currency, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Sam Smith, the former president of Washington State University...
Marginal No More: Willmoore Kendall as Essential Conservative
Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall By Christopher Owen. Lexington Books, 2021. Hardcover, 256 pages, $105. Reviewed by Jason Ross. As the conservative movement is crumbling, many outside of that movement’s mainstream are tracing their way back to...
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,...
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