Transmitting Western Civilization Through Education

Transmitting Western Civilization Through Education

by | Feb 2, 2025

On Being Civilized: A Few Lines Amid the Breakage By Tracy Lee Simmons. Memoria College Press, 2023. Paperback, 281 pages, $15.45. Reviewed by Darrell Falconburg. “What is civilization?”  When confronted with what appears to be civilizational disintegration, many...
The Mystery of Imitation

The Mystery of Imitation

by | Jan 12, 2025

All Desire is a Desire for Being By René Girard, Edited and Introduced by Cynthia L. Haven. Penguin Classics, 2024. Paperback, 336 pages, $18. Reviewed by Justin D. Garrison. In All Desire is a Desire for Being, Cynthia L. Haven has produced the first edited volume of...
Gerald Russello: The Man Who Did It All

Gerald Russello: The Man Who Did It All

by | Nov 17, 2024

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...
An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe

An Old Man, Wrapped in a Robe

by | Mar 3, 2024

What is Christianity? The Last Writings  By Pope Benedict XVI. Ignatius Press, 2023. Hardcover, 230 pages, $24.95. Reviewed by Ryan Patrick Budd. At the lowest point in his life, when everything was falling in ruin, King Saul of Israel knew whom he really wanted to...