Review 8 July 2012
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Founders’ Faith: None of the Above
Gary Scott Smith
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The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation, Revolution
by Gregg L. Frazer. University Press of Kansas, 2012, 296 pp., $35.
Best of the Bookman 8 July 2012
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America Is Hard to See
Peter S. Stanlis
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The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes A. Brownson [1865]. Reprinted by Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers: Clifton, New Jersey, 1972.[ISI 2002]
Review 1 July 2012
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On the Long March of the Wolves through the Sheep-pen
James E. Person, Jr.
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Intellectuals and Society: Revised and Expanded Edition by Thomas Sowell. New York: Basic Books, 2012, 669 pages, $19.99.
Best of the Bookman 1 July 2012
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Many Liberalisms
Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.
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Against Liberalism, by John Kekes. Cornell University Press, 1997, 287 pp., $30 cloth.
Symposium 26 June 2012
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What We’re Reading (Summer 2012)
Bookman contributors
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As a special summer feature, we’ve asked our valued contributors to tell us what they’re planning to read this summer. We hope it provides you with ideas of your own.
Review 24 June 2012
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For a Thousand Memes to Sing
Richard M. Reinsch II
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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Marilynne Robinson. Yale University Press, 2010. 176 pages, $24.
Best of the Bookman 24 June 2012
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Liberal Idealism Critiqued
Peter Augustine Lawler
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Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism: From Criticism to Cultural Studies by James Seaton. University of Michigan Press, 1996. 287 pp., $42.50 cloth.
Review 17 June 2012
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Signs of Contradiction
Adam Schwartz
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The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature, 1850–2000 by Richard Griffiths. Continuum (London & New York) xii + 260 pp., $35 cloth, 2010.
Best of the Bookman 17 June 2012
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The Perceptivity of Isaac Hecker
Robert Royal
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Isaac T. Hecker, The Diary: Romantic Religion in Ante-Bellum America edited by John Farina. Paulist Press (“Sources of American Spirituality” Series) 1988, 456 pp., $14.95 cloth.
Review 10 June 2012
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A Necessary Symbiosis
Samuel Gregg
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America’s Spiritual Capital
by Nicholas Capaldi and Theodore Roosevelt Malloch
St Augustine’s Press (South Bend, Indiana), 2012.
Paper, 176 pages, $17.
On Essays and Letters 10 June 2012
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On the Depths of Villainy
James V. Schall, S.J.
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On Essays and Letters
Review 6 June 2012
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Men with Lit Matches
A. W. R. Hawkins
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Fahrenheit 451, The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
by Ray Bradbury.
Simon & Schuster, 2003.
208 pages, hardcover, $23.
Essay 3 June 2012
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On Statesmanship: The Case of John Adams
Bruce P. Frohnen
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This article is the second of two parts and is based on a talk delivered to a Colloquium on Statesmanship and the Constitution at the Rochester Institute of Technology, April 13–14, 2012. Part One is here.
Best of the Bookman 3 June 2012
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Practical Sermons
Eugene D. Genovese
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Redeeming the Time by Russell Kirk. Edited with an introduction by Jeffrey O. Nelson. Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996, 321 pp., $25 cloth, $15 paper.
The moral imagination is the principal possession that man does not share with the beasts. It is man’s power to perceive ethical truth, abiding law, in the seeming chaos of many events. Without the moral imagination, man would live merely day to day, or rather moment to moment, as dogs do. It is the strange faculty—inexplicable if men are assumed to have an animal nature only—of discerning greatness, justice, and order, beyond the bars of appetite and self-interest.
Russell Kirk, Enemies of the Permanent Things, 1969
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