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<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' id="isPasted" style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>The University Bookman is sustained by the generosity of readers like you.&nbsp;<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>Your gifts help us keep serious conversation about the books that shape culture open to readers everywhere. In 2027, we plan to work with more than 30 writers to publish nearly 150 reviews and reach more than 100,000 readers around the world. Part of our vision for next year is to incorporate new voices in the Bookman &mdash; and to introduce new audiences to a distinctive conservative view. But this work requires resources to help edit, publish, and promote the content while maintaining a fund to provide writers a modest honorarium for their work.<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>If just one out of four Bookman readers contributed $10 annually, we&rsquo;d dramatically increase our ability to attract new writers and publish reviews and commentary from the voices you&rsquo;ve come to know and trust.<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>Will you give $50, $75, or $100 to help us meet our $20,000 goal to expand the work of the University Bookman?<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>During Kirktober, every donor will receive a link to an audio recording Ex Tenebris, a ghostly short story from Russell Kirk. The audio book was produced by a former assistant to Russell Kirk, and we think you&#39;ll thoroughly enjoy it.<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>Here&#39;s what our writers have to say:<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>&quot;I write for The University Bookman because it is important for me as a scholar, an American, and someone who desires to be a part of a great conversation&mdash;the conversation of mankind, as carried on within the great, Western tradition. Nowhere else can one engage with books that take seriously our God-given natures as persons and participants in a way of life that is worthy, brings us closer to who we ought to be, and is deeply ours. As an author and as a reader The Bookman enriches my understanding and enlivens my spirit as it keeps me grounded in the important task of renewing our common way of life.&quot; &mdash; Bruce Frohnen<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>&ldquo;The past couple of years have been a time of seemingly endless jeremiads about the decline of reading, literacy, and books. But in the midst of such chaos, The University Bookman simply continues to review &lsquo;books that build culture&rsquo; &mdash; a mission to which I am honored to contribute with my own reviews.&rdquo; &ndash; Nadya Williams<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>Thank you for your consideration and generosity,&nbsp;<p fr-original-style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;' style='box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;'>Luke C. Sheahan, PhD, Editor The University Bookman Please note: Your gift is completely tax deductible and helps us continue to offer this trusted resource to many thousands of readers around the world.

<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">The University Bookman is sustained by the generosity of readers like you. <p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Your gifts help us keep serious conversation about the books that shape culture open to readers everywhere. In 2027, we plan to work with more than 30 writers to publish nearly 150 reviews and reach more than 100,000 readers around the world. Part of our vision for next year is to incorporate new voices in the Bookman — and to introduce new audiences to a distinctive conservative view. But this work requires resources to help edit, publish, and promote the content while maintaining a fund to provide writers a modest honorarium for their work.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">If just one out of four Bookman readers contributed $10 annually, we’d dramatically increase our ability to attract new writers and publish reviews and commentary from the voices you’ve come to know and trust.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Will you give $50, $75, or $100 to help us meet our $20,000 goal to expand the work of the University Bookman?<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">During Kirktober, every donor will receive a link to an audio recording Ex Tenebris, a ghostly short story from Russell Kirk. The audio book was produced by a former assistant to Russell Kirk, and we think you'll thoroughly enjoy it.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Here's what our writers have to say:<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">"I write for The University Bookman because it is important for me as a scholar, an American, and someone who desires to be a part of a great conversation—the conversation of mankind, as carried on within the great, Western tradition. Nowhere else can one engage with books that take seriously our God-given natures as persons and participants in a way of life that is worthy, brings us closer to who we ought to be, and is deeply ours. As an author and as a reader The Bookman enriches my understanding and enlivens my spirit as it keeps me grounded in the important task of renewing our common way of life." — Bruce Frohnen<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0px 20px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">“The past couple of years have been a time of seemingly endless jeremiads about the decline of reading, literacy, and books. But in the midst of such chaos, The University Bookman simply continues to review ‘books that build culture’ — a mission to which I am honored to contribute with my own reviews.” – Nadya Williams<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Thank you for your consideration and generosity, <p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;text-size-adjust:100%;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;line-height:1.5;max-width:100%">Luke C. Sheahan, PhD, Editor The University Bookman Please note: Your gift is completely tax deductible and helps us continue to offer this trusted resource to many thousands of readers around the world.

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