Humanely Conservative
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. The controversies in our country’s...
Conservative Humanism for a Postmodern Age
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition By Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul. University of Notre Dame Press, 2023. Hardcover, 314 pages, $55.00. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Graham McAleer and Alexander...
We Still Need Family, Religion, and Tradition
Enemies of the Innocent: Life, Truth, and Meaning in a Dark Age By N. A. Haug. Academica Press, 2023. Paperback, 376 pages, $35. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. This book is at once terribly important and terribly frustrating. How could that possibly be, one justifiably...
The “Art of Being” and “The Art of Becoming”
Some Permanent Things, Second Edition By James Matthew Wilson. Wiseblood Books, 2022. Paperback, 162 pages, $15. Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl. During an interview a few years back, James Matthew Wilson was asked what he meant by the “good,” a fitting question for...
A pleasure to review @joldmcginn's fine book, WHY DEMOCRACY NEEDS THE RICH.
https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/how-should-we-think-about-inequality/
With thanks to my man, @lsheahan, who is giving @ubookman some "oomph" these days.
The radical materialist culture of the last two hundred years, equally common to both the Communist East and the capitalist West, has brought in its wake a high degree of material and technological advancement, with many obvious benefits for mankind. - William Scott on Aleksandr