Review 5 February 2012
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Humanizing the Social Sciences
Gerald J. Russello
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Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
by Peter L. Berger.
Prometheus Books, 2011, 264pp, hardcover, $26.
Best of the Bookman 5 February 2012
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Textbooks and the Audience for Poetry
Robert Beum
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In this essay from Spring 1964, poet Robert Beum points to some virtues of poetry and offers a modest proposal to address the decline of poetry in American culture.
Review 29 January 2012
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On the Matter of Authentic Conservatism and Political Faith
Hunter Baker
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From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism. By D. G. Hart. Eerdmans, 2011. 237 pages. $25.
Best of the Bookman 29 January 2012
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Oakeshott and Conservatism
Francis G. Wilson
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Rationalism in Politics and Other Essaysby Michael Oakeshott. New York: Basic Books, 1962. 333 pp. [rev ed. Liberty Fund, 1991]
Review 22 January 2012
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Contingent Conservatism
Derek Turner
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The New Politics: Liberal Conservatism or Same Old Tories?
by Peter King, Policy Press (Bristol UK), 2011, 156pp, paper, $35.
Best of the Bookman 22 January 2012
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A New ‘Rasselas’
Jeffrey Hart
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson. Edited by Warren Fleischauer. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 1962. 189 pp. [Edition reviewed; Penguin edition (Kindle); Free edition (Kindle)]
Review 15 January 2012
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The Empire Goes Overboard
Michael J. Ard
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Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, Cloth, 328 pp, $30
Best of the Bookman 14 January 2012
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Memo to Irving Babbitt
John Abbot Clark
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In this Best of the Bookman essay from 1962, a writer who was then an associate professor of English at Michigan State, wrote a letter to Irving Babbitt, who died in 1933, assessing the state of education and culture in light of Babbit’s concerns during his lifetime.
Review 8 January 2012
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Political Correctness and the War Against Authority
A. W. R. Hawkins
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Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction by Howard S. Schwartz, Karnac Books, 2010. Paper, 240 pp.
The Classics Revisited 8 January 2012
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Witness over Sixty Years
James E. Person Jr.
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Witness by Whittaker Chambers
(Random House, 1952)
Review 28 December 2011
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Celebrated Minor Contemporary American Poetry
Eugene Schlanger
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The Best American Poetry 2011
Edited by Kevin Young with David Lehman
Scribner (New York, NY), 2011, xxvi + 211 pp., $35.00
On Essays and Letters 28 December 2011
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‘The Greatest Fool That Ever Lived’
James V. Schall, S.J.
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In this bonus column, Father Schall reflects on the nature of philosophy, Stoicism, and the Incarnational view of life.
