http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/ The University Bookman, reviewing books that build culture en pedman@kirkcenter.org Copyright 2012 2012-05-13T13:05:26+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/christopher-lasch-conservative/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/christopher-lasch-conservative/#When:13:05:26Z Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch by Eric Miller. Eerdmans, 2010. Cloth, 394 pages, $32. Seth J. Bartee Reviews 2012-05-13T13:05:26+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-household-gods-of-freedom/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-household-gods-of-freedom/#When:12:30:28Z John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics by Russell Kirk. Third ed., with select letters & speeches. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1978. [Fourth edition, 1997, cloth $24, paper $14.50.] M. E. Bradford Best of the Bookman 2012-05-13T12:30:28+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-kind-of-man-modernity-can-afford/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-kind-of-man-modernity-can-afford/#When:10:25:54Z Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore by Peter L. Berger. Prometheus Books, 2011, 264pp, hardcover, $26. Hunter Baker Reviews 2012-05-06T10:25:54+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/what-is-happening-to-history/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/what-is-happening-to-history/#When:10:01:26Z In this 1979 essay, the historian looks at the state of his field. He argues that “Popular interest in history preceded the teaching of history in schools; and there are many reasons to believe that it will survive it too.” John Lukacs Best of the Bookman 2012-05-06T10:01:26+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/socratic-and-secular-irony/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/socratic-and-secular-irony/#When:23:49:40Z A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear. Harvard University Press, 2011, 210 pages, $30. Lee Trepanier 2012-05-01T23:49:40+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/freedom-complex/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/freedom-complex/#When:13:40:48Z On the Road to Emmaus: The Catholic Dialogue with America and Modernity by Glenn W. Olsen. The Catholic University of America Press, 2012. 303 pp., $70. Gerald J. Russello Reviews 2012-04-29T13:40:48+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/belloc-social-thought/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/belloc-social-thought/#When:13:39:26Z Hilaire Belloc, Edwardian Radical by John P. McCarthy. Liberty Press, 1978 [IHS Press, 2009, 373 pages.] Jane Soames Nickerson Best of the Bookman 2012-04-29T13:39:26+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/adrienne-rich-contemporary-poetry/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/adrienne-rich-contemporary-poetry/#When:01:37:23Z Even measured against the hyperbole of her obituaries, which are less about the quality and resonance of her poetry and more about the ideologies of her admirers, it is possible to assess the public value of contemporary American poetry in the context of Adrienne Rich’s words. Eugene Schlanger Essays 2012-04-23T01:37:23+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/poetically-thinking/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/poetically-thinking/#When:14:25:32Z The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan by George Steiner. New Directions, 2012. 224 pages, $25. Micah Mattix Reviews 2012-04-22T14:25:32+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-sexual-revolution-and-the-will-to-disbelieve/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-sexual-revolution-and-the-will-to-disbelieve/#When:03:49:32Z Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution by Mary Eberstadt. Ignatius Press (San Francisco), 2012. 175 pages, $20. Eve Tushnet Reviews 2012-04-16T03:49:32+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/uncanny-tales-of-the-moral-imagination/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/uncanny-tales-of-the-moral-imagination/#When:03:40:30Z The Princess of All Lands by Russell Kirk. Arkham House Publishers, Sauk City, Wisconsin 53583. 1979. 238 pages. $8.95. [The stories from this volume are included in Ancestral Shadows (Eerdmans 2004), Kirk’s collected ghostly tales. —Ed.] Jerry Pournelle Best of the Bookman 2012-04-16T03:40:30+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/grounding-the-life-of-the-mind/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/grounding-the-life-of-the-mind/#When:02:41:18Z Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America by Daniel J. Flynn. ISI Books (Wilmington, DE), 2011. 187 pp., $28 cloth Matthew A. Rarey Reviews 2012-04-09T02:41:18+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/a-thundering-paradox-of-a-life/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/a-thundering-paradox-of-a-life/#When:03:15:10Z George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis. New York: The Penguin Press. 2011. 784 pp. $40. Francis P. Sempa Reviews 2012-04-02T03:15:10+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/man-proud-man/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/man-proud-man/#When:12:15:25Z Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo, translated by Gregory Elliott. London and New York: Verso Books, 2011. Pages viii+375. $35. Christopher O. Blum Reviews 2012-03-25T12:15:25+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/on-being-a-basel-professor/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/on-being-a-basel-professor/#When:12:09:49Z On Essays and Letters James V. Schall, S.J. On Essays and Letters 2012-03-25T12:09:49+00:00