Whispers From Kirk
By Gerald J. Russello. In honor of The University Bookman’s former editor Gerald Russello, who passed away two years ago this month, we are reprinting this essay, which was originally published in 2007, with the gracious permission of Chronicles magazine. Stan Evans...
It All Began in Old Mill Basin, Brooklyn: A Tribute to Gerald J. Russello on the Second Anniversary of His Death
By Gerard T. Mundy. On November 7, 2021, Gerald J. Russello, editor of The University Bookman for sixteen years and a man whose jolly heart seemed so often to be in the right place, died too young. Exuding a contagious type of positivity regardless of the situation,...
Christian Freedom and the Western Political Tradition
Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition By D. C. Schindler. University of Notre Dame Press, 2022. Hardcover, 550 Pages, $60. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Around 2014, pundits and Washington, D.C.-based journalists announced the arrival...
The Perennial Relevance of Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke and the Perennial Battle, 1789–1797 Edited by Daniel B. Klein and Dominic Pino. CL Press, 2022. Paperback, 172 pages, $9. Reviewed by André Gushurst-Moore. Single-volume selections from Burke’s writings frequently subsist on some scheme, relating both to...
.@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