The University Bookman

Editors’ Note | 3

Shall These Bones Live?

decline and fall | 5

At the End of an Age, (read this review)
by John Lukacs
reviewed by Thomas F. Bertonneau

on not thinking in slogans | 11

The American Cause, by Russell Kirk (read this review)
Edited with a new Introduction by Gleaves Whitney
reviewed by Robert Heineman

buckley’s “eternal verities” | 14

Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches,
by William F. Buckley Jr.
reviewed by William F. Meehan III

The reserved powers of the tenth amendment | 19

The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty, (read this review)
edited by Mark R. Killenbeck
reviewed by Marshall DeRosa

a touchstone of eloquence and wisdom | 24

Creed and Culture: A Touchstone Reader, (read this review)
edited by James M. Kushiner
reviewed by James E. Person, Jr.

vile bodies | 28

USA Today: The Stunning Incoherence of American Civilization, (read this review)
by Reid Buckley
reviewed by John S. Reist, Jr.

The Virgin and the Dynamo | 33

The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies, (read this review)
by Virginia Postrel
reviewed by Joshua P. Hochschild

in memoriam | 39

Ernest van den Haag (1914–2002) (read this article)
by George H. Nash

outposts of culture | 43

The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-War Britain,
by Jason Harding
reviewed by Gerald J. Russello

On Essays and Letters | 46

“The One Good Thing to Do with Money”
by James V. Schall, S.J.

Editorial: the quotable burke | 49

Essay:

The uses of Burke’s youthful writings | 51
by Steven P. Millies

Essay:

Edmund Burke: Christian Statesman | 57 (read this essay)
by Francis Canavan, S.J.

Review:

The Principles of True Politics | 59 (read this review)
A Moral Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Francis Canavan
reviewed by Ian Crowe

Review:

A Giddy Harbinger of Madness | 61
The Last Alchemist by Iain McCalman
reviewed by Stephen Holt