The University Bookman

Volume 46, Number 4 (Winter 2008)

Contents

Editor’s Note: Remembering Russell Kirk

Essay 2 March 2009

Lost Causes and Gained Causes
by James E. Person Jr.

Russell Kirk’s Legacy After 15 Years

Essay 2 March 2009

The Many Roots of American Order
by Lee Edwards

Essay 2 March 2009

From Tradition to ‘Values Conservatism’
by Paul Gottfried

A Sympathetic Critic’s View of Kirk’s Legacy

Essay 2 March 2009

The Sword of Education
by David G. Bonagura, Jr.

Essay 2 March 2009

‘And Therefore as Stranger Give It Welcome’
by R. Andrew Newman

Russell Kirk’s Ghostly Fiction Invites Us to Embrace and Live the Mystery

Essay 2 March 2009

A Foreign Policy for (Probably Not Very Many) Americans
by John Willson

Review 2 March 2009

Heaven on Earth or Hell’s Dress Rehearsal
a review by Mark Kalthoff

Isaac Newton’s Philosophy of Sacred Space and Sacred Time: An Essay on the History of an Idea by Gregory Gillette The Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, N.Y.) 119 pp., $99.95 cloth, 2007

Review 2 March 2009

Despotism Justified
a review by Mattei Radu

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes. Yale University Press (New Haven, Conn.) 216 pp., $30.00 cloth, 2006

Review 2 March 2009

Toward a Conservative Conservation Movement
a review by Tobias J. Lanz

Why Conservation Is Failing and How It Can Regain Ground by Eric T. Freyfogle. Yale University Press (New Haven, Conn.) 302 pp., $37.00 cloth, 2006

Review 2 March 2009

Morality in History and Historiography
a review by Jason Ross

Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the American Civil War by Harry S. Stout. Viking Penguin (New York) 576 pp., $29.95 cloth, 2006

Review 2 March 2009

Six Honest Serving-Men
a review by R. J. Stove

The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students by Jenny L. Presnell. Oxford University Press (New York City) 256 pp., $17.95 paper 2006

Review 2 March 2009

A Formidable Conservative Mind
a review by Austin Bramwell

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw. Belknap Press (Cambridge, Mass.) 736 pp., $35 cloth, 2007

Essay 2 March 2009

A Patron Saint of Teachers
by James V. Schall, S.J.

On Essays and Letters

Review 3 March 2009

Books in Little
a review by The Editors

Also in this Issue

Is Life Worth Living?

Essay by Russell Kirk