America First—Or Last?

America First—Or Last?

America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators By Jacob Heilbrunn.  Liveright, 2024. Hardcover, 264 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg.  Paul Hollander, wherever he is, need not worry. The best book by far on an American romance with...
The Fourth Awokening and Its Discontents

The Fourth Awokening and Its Discontents

We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite By Musa al-Gharbi. Princeton University Press, 2024. Hardcover, 432 pages, $35. Reviewed by Gene Callahan. I would like to alert University Bookman readers to an excellent and important book that has...
The Social Gospel for Our Times

The Social Gospel for Our Times

The End of Civility: Christ and Prophetic Division By Ryan Andrew Newson. Baylor University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 248 pages, $54.99. Reviewed by Lee Trepanier. In the past few years, there has been a growing number of commentators decrying the lack of civility in...
Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution

Yuval Levin’s Stirring Defense of the Constitution

American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again By Yuval Levin. Basic Books, 2024. Hardcover, 352 pages, $32. Reviewed by Michael Lucchese. Something has gone wrong with America. Even among the politically disengaged, one can detect a...