The University Bookman

Winter 2013

Contents

On Essays and Letters 23 December 2012

On Quotations
by James V. Schall, S.J.

On Essays and Letters

Review 30 December 2012

A Player Piano for the Twenty-First Century
a review by Gary L. Gregg II

Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Dial Press 1999 [1952] Paper, 352 pages, $15.

Review 6 January 2013

Bloodied Beauty
a review by Peter L. Edman

The Poetics of Evil: Toward an Aesthetic Theodicy by Philip Tallon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Cloth, 266 pages, $74.

Review 13 January 2013

Testing the Metaphor
a review by JP O’Malley

Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J. G. Ballard, 1967–2008, Edited by Simon Sellars and Dan O’Hara. Fourth Estate, 2012. Hardcover, 304 pages, £25.

Review 20 January 2013

The Persistence of History
a review by P. Bracy Bersnak

After Tocqueville: The Promise and Failure of Democracy by Chilton Williamson, Jr. ISI Books, 2012 Hardcover, 288 pages, $28

Review 27 January 2013

Hope or Despair? Roger Kimball and the Future of Culture
a review by Wilfred M. McClay

The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia by Roger Kimball. St. Augustine’s Press, 2012. Hardcover, 360 pp., $35.

Review 3 February 2013

A Church of One
a review by Michael J. Ard

Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry. Viking, 2012, Cloth, 480 pages, $35.

Review 10 February 2013

Think Local, Act Local
a review by Tobias J. Lanz

How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton. Oxford University Press, 2012. Hardcover, 464 pages, $30.

Interview 10 February 2013

The Libertarian Who Loves Kirk: Bradley Birzer on the Permanent Things
an interview by Gerald J. Russello

Interview 17 February 2013

Prog Rock and the Permanent Things: More with Bradley Birzer
an interview by Gerald J. Russello

Review 17 February 2013

(The Future of) Liberalism in Our Disordered Age
a review by Ted V. McAllister

Post-Liberalism: The Death of a Dream by Melvyn L. Fein. Transaction Press, 2012. Cloth, 359 pages, $40.

Essay 21 February 2013

Marital Distress and the 2012 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
by Eugene Schlanger

Stag’s Leap: Poems, by Sharon Olds. Knopf, 2012. 112 pages, Hardcover, $27; Paperback, $17.

Review 24 February 2013

Tolkien and the Great Tale
a review by Adam Schwartz

The Christian World of ‘The Hobbit’ by Devin Brown. Abingdon Press, 2012 193 pp., $14.99 paper.

Review 3 March 2013

Capitalism vs. the Free Market
a review by Ivan Pongracic

The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You edited by Tom Palmer. Jameson Books, Inc., 2011. Paperback, 129 pp., $8.95. Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy by Robert Sirico. Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. Hardcover, 213 pp. $27.95.

Review 3 March 2013

The Perils of Neutrality
a review by Bruce P. Frohnen

The Common Good of Constitutional Democracy: Essays in Political Philosophy and on Catholic Social Teaching by Martin Rhonheimer, edited by William F. Murphy, Jr. Catholic University of America Press, 2013. Paperback, 560 pages, $45.

Review 10 March 2013

Uncle Walt and the Lost Era of Network News
a review by John C. Chalberg

Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley. HarperCollins, 2012. Hardcover, 819 pages, $35.

Review 10 March 2013

Churchill After the War
a review by Francis P. Sempa

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid. Little Brown and Company, 2012. Hardcover, 1182 pages, $40.

Review 17 March 2013

Morality and Order
a review by A. W. R. Hawkins

Redeeming the Time by Russell Kirk, ed. Jeffrey O. Nelson. Wilmington, ISI Books, 1996. Cloth, 321 pages, $24.95.

Review 18 March 2013

Chronicling the Conservatives
a review by Derek Turner

The Conservatives—A History by Robin Harris. London: Bantam Press, 2012, hb., 632pps., £30.