Must the University Be Political?
The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s By Ellen Schrecker. University of Chicago Press, 2021. Hardcover, 616 pages, $35. Reviewed by Ethan Schrum. Should academic departments and scholarly societies issue position statements on current political matters?...
The Classically Educated Mind of W. E. B Du Bois
Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois By David Withun. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $80.00. Reviewed by Chris Butynskyi. Race, class, gender. These are three important components...
Why Beauty Matters
The Wounds of Beauty By Margarita Mooney Suarez. Cluny Media, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Elizabeth Bittner. What is beauty and why is it so important, particularly in the realm of art and education? Margarita Mooney Suarez delves into this...
Politics Awaiting the City of God: James Schall, S.J. on The Nature of Political Philosophy
The Nature of Political Philosophy and other Studies and Commentaries By James V. Schall, S.J. Edited by William McCormick. The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. Paperback, 240 pages, $29.95. Reviewed by David Beer. Fr. James Schall, S.J. (1928-2019) was a...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.