The University Bookman

Table of Contents, Vol 44, No. 2 (Winter 2006)

Editor’s Note | 3

Current Problems and Eternal Questions

Scalia the Originalist | 5

Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court’s Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice, edited and with commentary by Kevin A. Ring,
and The Opinions of Justice Antonin Scalia: The Caustic Conservative, edited and with commentary by Paul I. Weizer
reviewed by Edward Whelan

Toward a New Kind of History | 9

Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge, by John Lukacs
reviewed by Lee Congdon

Garet Garrett: Intellectual Ancestor to Postwar Conservatives | 13

Salvos Against the New Deal: Selections from the Saturday Evening Post 1933-1940 and Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942, both by Garet Garrett. Edited by Bruce Ramsey
reviewed by Gerald J. Russello

Up From Scientism | 17

Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing, edited by William A. Dembski
reviewed by D. J. Mullan

Literature as Moral Meditation | 21

Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision, by George A. Panichas
reviewed by Terry H. Pickett

A Prudent Approach to Social Security’s Future | 25

Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis, by John Attarian
reviewed by James E. Person, Jr.

American Conservative | 29

Francis Graham Wilson: Collected Essays, edited by H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, and Kathy B. Cheek
reviewed by Joseph R. Fornieri

A Placid Portrait of the Enlightenment | 33

The Enlightenment & the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture, by Louis Dupré
reviewed by Christopher O. Blum

Moral Visions Of The Free Market | 36

Wealth, Poverty & Human Destiny, edited by Doug Bandow and David Schindler
reviewed by Glen Austin Sproviero

Looking Behind The Mask | 42

Masquerade, by Joseph S. Salemi
reviewed by Sally Cook

On Russian Conservatism | 46

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics, by Richard Pipes
reviewed by William Anthony Hay

On Essays And Letters | 51

by James V. Schall, S.J.

History And The Moral Imagination | 55

Historical Consciousness, by John Lukacs
reviewed by Russell Kirk

Books In Little | 61

reviewed by Gerald J. Russello

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