http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/ The University Bookman, reviewing books that build culture en pedman@kirkcenter.org Copyright 2012 2012-01-30T01:57:16+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/on-the-matter-of-authentic-conservatism-and-political-faith/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/on-the-matter-of-authentic-conservatism-and-political-faith/#When:01:57:16Z From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism. By D. G. Hart. Eerdmans, 2011. 237 pages. $25. Hunter Baker Reviews 2012-01-30T01:57:16+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/oakeshott-and-conservatism/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/oakeshott-and-conservatism/#When:00:59:38Z Rationalism in Politics and Other Essaysby Michael Oakeshott. New York: Basic Books, 1962. 333 pp. [rev ed. Liberty Fund, 1991] Francis G. Wilson Best of the Bookman 2012-01-30T00:59:38+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/contingent-conservatism/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/contingent-conservatism/#When:13:32:11Z The New Politics: Liberal Conservatism or Same Old Tories? by Peter King, Policy Press (Bristol UK), 2011, 156pp, paper, $35. Derek Turner 2012-01-22T13:32:11+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/a-new-rasselas/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/a-new-rasselas/#When:10:31:57Z The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson. Edited by Warren Fleischauer. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 1962. 189 pp. [Edition reviewed; Penguin edition (Kindle); Free edition (Kindle)] Jeffrey Hart Best of the Bookman 2012-01-22T10:31:57+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-empire-goes-overboard/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-empire-goes-overboard/#When:11:27:58Z Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America by Benjamin L. Carp, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010, Cloth, 328 pp, $30 Michael J. Ard 2012-01-15T11:27:58+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/memo-to-irving-babbitt/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/memo-to-irving-babbitt/#When:10:32:54Z In this Best of the Bookman essay from 1962, a writer who was then an associate professor of English at Michigan State, wrote a letter to Irving Babbitt, who died in 1933, assessing the state of education and culture in light of Babbit’s concerns during his lifetime. One of the most influential critics in the history of American letters receives (posthumously) a note from a [then-] associate professor of English at Michigan State University. John Abbot Clark Best of the Bookman 2012-01-14T10:32:54+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/political-correctness-war-against-authority/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/political-correctness-war-against-authority/#When:10:40:56Z Society Against Itself: Political Correctness and Organizational Self-Destruction by Howard S. Schwartz, Karnac Books, 2010. Paper, 240 pp. A. W. R. Hawkins Reviews 2012-01-08T10:40:56+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/witness-over-sixty-years/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/witness-over-sixty-years/#When:10:11:03Z Witness by Whittaker Chambers (Random House, 1952) James E. Person Jr. The Classics Revisited 2012-01-08T10:11:03+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/celebrated-minor-contemporary-american-poetry/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/celebrated-minor-contemporary-american-poetry/#When:06:59:27Z The Best American Poetry 2011 Edited by Kevin Young with David Lehman Scribner (New York, NY), 2011, xxvi + 211 pp., $35.00 Eugene Schlanger Reviews 2011-12-28T06:59:27+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-greatest-fool-that-ever-lived/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-greatest-fool-that-ever-lived/#When:04:37:25Z In this bonus column, Father Schall reflects on the nature of philosophy, Stoicism, and the Incarnational view of life.On Essays and Letters James V. Schall, S.J. On Essays and Letters 2011-12-28T04:37:25+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/lukacs-and-kennan-friendship/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/lukacs-and-kennan-friendship/#When:04:58:35Z A Lukacs Symposium Lee Congdon Symposia 2011-12-22T04:58:35+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-awful-responsibility-of-time/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/the-awful-responsibility-of-time/#When:04:58:56Z John Lukacs and the Problem of American History. A Lukacs Symposium.John Lukacs and the Problem of American History A Lukacs Symposium Mark G. Malvasi Symposia 2011-12-21T04:58:56+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/john-lukacs-as-teacher/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/john-lukacs-as-teacher/#When:04:58:46Z A Lukacs Symposium John P. Rossi Symposia 2011-12-20T04:58:46+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/john-lukacs-biblical-historical-thinking/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/john-lukacs-biblical-historical-thinking/#When:04:58:16Z A Lukacs Symposium Francesca Aran Murphy Symposia 2011-12-19T04:58:16+00:00 http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/lukacs-symposium-intro/ http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/lukacs-symposium-intro/#When:04:20:48Z Over the course of the week, we are publishing a series of essays on the life and achievement of historian John Lukacs, as well as a few items by him. The Editors Symposia 2011-12-19T04:20:48+00:00