The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies By Auron MacIntyre. Regnery Publishing, 2024. Hardcover, 208 pages, $32.99. Reviewed by Christopher Lightcap and Tom Sarrouf, Jr. Auron MacIntyre’s recent release of The Total State provides a fresh reading...
November 7, 2024, marked the third anniversary of long-time Bookman editor Gerald Russello (1971-2021). This week he was honored with the publication of his most representative essays and reviews. How Do You Do It? The Selected Works of Gerald Russello is now...
American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 232 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. American Refugees is a worthwhile and highly readable account of an important...
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Daniel Pitt. If we go back fifty years to 1974, one might say it was annus horribilis for America. The US was in a grip of an energy crisis, the Presidency of Richard...
The Roots of American Order By Russell Kirk. ISI Books, 2003. Paperback, 534 pages, $18. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Let me begin with what may seem an odd claim: the American Constitution is a central concern of Russell Kirk’s vast body of work. This statement is...
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.