The University Bookman

 

Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter 2006)

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note: Current Problems and Eternal Questions

History and the Moral Imagination
a review by Russell Kirk
Historical Consciousness: The Remembered Past by John Lukacs Reprinted by Transaction Publishers (Library of Conservative Thought), 1994. Review reprinted from The Sewanee Review, Spring 1969, Volume LXXVII, Number 2.
Many a Touching Story
by James V. Schall, S.J.
On Essays and Letters
Scalia the Originalist
a review by Edward Whelan
Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court’s Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice edited and with commentary by Kevin A. Ring. Regnery Publishing (Washington, D.C.), 338 pp., $27.95 cloth, 2004. The Opinions of Justice Antonin Scalia: The Caustic Conservative edited and with commentary by Paul I. Weizer. Peter Lang Publishing (New York), 256 pp., $25.95 paper, 2004.
Moral Visions of the Free Market
a review by Glen Austin Sproviero
Wealth, Poverty & Human Destiny edited by Doug Bandow and David Schindler. ISI Books (Wilmington, Delware), 350 pp., $29.95 cloth, 2003.
Up From Scientism
a review by D. J. Mullan
Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing edited by William A. Dembski. ISI Books (Wilmington, Delaware) 366 pp., $28.00 cloth, 2004.
A Prudent Approach To Social Security’s Future
a review by James E. Person, Jr.
Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis by John Attarian. Transaction Books (New Brunswick, NJ), xvii + 393 pp., $44.95 cloth, 2002.
Literature As Moral Meditation
a review by Terry H. Pickett
Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision by George A. Panichas. Mercer University Press, (Macon, Georgia) 165 pp., $35.00 cloth, 2005.
Garet Garrett: Intellectual Ancestor to Postwar Conservatives
a review by Gerald J. Russello
Salvos Against the New Deal: Selections from the Saturday Evening Post 1933–1940 by Garet Garrett. Edited by Bruce Ramsey. Caxton Press (Caldwell, Idaho), 282 pp., $12.95 paper, 2002. Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post, 1939–1942 by Garet Garrett. Edited by Bruce Ramsey. Caxton Press (Caldwell, Idaho), 285 pp., $12.95 paper, 2003.
A Placid Portrait of the Enlightenment
a review by Christopher O. Blum
The Enlightenment & the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture by Louis Dupré. Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 397 pp., $25.00 paper, 2004.
Toward a New Kind of History
a review by Lee Congdon
Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge A Reader by John Lukacs (edited by Mark G. Malvasi and Jeffrey O. Nelson). ISI Books (Wilmington, Delaware), 922 pp., $30.00 cloth, 2005.
Looking Behind the Mask
a review by Sally Cook
Masquerade by Joseph S. Salemi. Pivot Press (Expansive Poetry Online Bookstore), 84 pp., $12.00 paper, 2005.
American Conservative
a review by Joseph R. Fornieri
Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal: Collected Essays by Francis Graham Wilson, edited by H. Lee Cheek, Jr., M. Susan Power, and Kathy B. Cheek Transaction Publishers (New Brunswick, New Jersey) 263 pp., $49.95 cloth, 2001.
On Russian Conservatism
a review by William Anthony Hay
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes. Yale University Press (New Haven, Connecticut), 216 pp., $30.00 cloth, 2006.
Books in Little
a review by Gerald J. Russello
 

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