The University Bookman

Volume 42, Number 4 (Winter 2003)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note: Correcting the Record

Stubborn Myths
a review by Glenn W. Olsen

Those Terrible Middle Ages! Debunking the Myths, by Régine Pernoud, translated by Anne Englund Nash. Ignatius Press (San Francisco, California) 179 pp., $12.95 paper, 2001.

Are Fish Good for the Brain?
by James V. Schall, S. J.

On Essays and Letters

Metaparody
a review by Bruce S. Thornton

Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York), 175pp, $22.00 cloth, 2001.

Also in this Issue

mapping history | 10

Dynamics of World History,
by Christopher Dawson
reviewed by Joseph T. Stuart

a discipline ablaze | 14

Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age,
by Victor Davis Hanson, John Heath, and Bruce Thornton
reviewed by Robert M. Woods

Transatlantic Conflict: The Future or an Illusion? | 18

Stars and Strife: The Coming Conflicts Between the USA and the European Union,
by John Redwood
reviewed by William Anthony Hay

In Hoc Signo Vinces | 22

Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church—A 2,000-Year History,
by H.W. Crocker III
reviewed by David Bardallis

the path less traveled | 26

The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored,
by George Weigel
reviewed by Loredana Vuoto

dorothy day’s “love in reality” | 29

On Pilgrimage,
by Dorothy Day
reviewed by Michael Dauphinais

what they have to say about us | 33

The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought,
by Paul V. Murphy
reviewed by Mark Royden Winchell

The Character of State Politics | 41

John Engler: the Man, the Leader & the Legacy,
by Gleaves Whitney
reviewed by Bruce Frohnen

index | 46

Volumes 40–42

Reflections
The Newsletter of the Edmund Burke Society

Editorial: high and worthy notions | 49

Essay

England’s Gothic and Monkish Education in Burke’s Reflections | 52
by Bronwen Catherine McShea

Essay

The Merits of Monarchy | 59
by Leslie Blake