The Founders and the Constitution on Religious Liberty
Religious Liberty and the American Founding: Natural Rights and the Original Meanings of the First Amendment Religion Clauses By Vincent Phillip Muñoz. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. Paperback, 344 pages, $30. Reviewed by Thomas G. West. In a field crowded...
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,...
Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience
By Ben Peterson At least since Sophocles’ dramatic telling of the bitter conflict between Antigone and Creon over the burial of Antigone’s traitorous brother, the tension between higher law and the benefits of a public order that promotes law abidingness has been...
Common Good Credentialism
Common Good Constitutionalism by Adrian Vermeule. Polity, 2022. Hardcover, 270 pages, $59.95. Reviewed by Bruce P. Frohnen. Thirty years on from its victory over Soviet communism, liberal individualism has shown itself to be a spent force. The drive to “liberate”...
I can’t believe it’s already been 3 years since Gerald’s passing. If you didn’t know him, Gerald was the first person to ever encourage 22-year-old me to write a book review. I thought “why does anyone care what I think about a book?” That’s who he was for so many young writers
Join us TOMORROW! Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase advanced copies of "How Do You Do It? The Selected Works of Gerald Russello."
This Wednesday in NYC: Rusty Reno will speak on "The Conservative Paradox: Mourning and Gratitude " at the Bookman's Gerald Russello Memorial Lecture. RSVP here:
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