Words from the Hearth
Home Songs By Sarah Reardon. Resource Publications, 2025. Paperback, 46 pages, $6. Reviewed by Annmarie McLaughlin. Sarah Reardon’s Home Songs, a collection of twenty poems about marriage and family life (seven of which were previously published individually), has...
Natural Law and the Need for Moral Clarity
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by Josh Herring. At the 2025 Academy of Philosophy and Letters meeting, Jason Jewell...
Moral Realism Over and Against Contingent Pluralism
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics By Jesse Covington, Bryan T. McGraw, and Micah Watson. IVP Academic, 2025. Paperback, 264 pages, $26.00. Reviewed by William H. Rooney. Hopeful Realism is a laudable collaboration among three political...
Christopher Dawson and Pluralism
By Gerald J. Russello. Editors’ Note: The University Bookman honors the fourth anniversary of the passing of its long-time editor, Gerald J. Russello, by republishing this essay on one of Gerald’s favorite subjects: Christopher Dawson. This essay appeared in Faith...
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What the American Revolution Secured: Order, Justice, and Freedom
A "revolution not made, but prevented.” Russell Kirk fondly and frequently quoted E. J. Payne’s pithy summary of Burke’s view of the Glorious Revolution.
"So yes, Lord Alfred, perhaps you are right after all. ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world! Perhaps one last Ulyssean adventure remains beyond the sunset, and perhaps some work of noble note may yet be done."