James Bowman is a Resident Scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Mr. Bowman is well known for his writing on honor, including his book, Honor: A History and “Whatever Happened to Honor,” originally delivered as one of the prestigious Bradley Lectures at the American Enterprise Institute in 2002, and republished (under the title “The Lost Sense of Honor”) in The Public Interest.
Among the other publications to which he has contributed are Harper’s, The Public Interest, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph of London, The Weekly Standard and National Review.
He has worked as a freelance journalist, serving as American editor of the Times Literary Supplement of London from 1991 to 2002, as movie critic of The American Spectator since 1990 and as media critic of The New Criterion since 1993. He has also been a weekly movie reviewer for The New York Sun since the newspaper’s re-foundation in 2002.
Mr. Bowman received B.A. degrees from Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania and the University of Cambridge in England, where he also did graduate study and received an M.A. in 1979.
[Jim Bowman is] a leading voice on arts, literature, film, and culture. The kind of work Jim does ... is critical because culture really does matter. Culture shapes souls. And our souls, at the end of the day, are what's at stake.
Robert P. George
PUBLICATIONS
Movie Review: Dunkirk
Published in The American Spectator on July 28, 2017
A Wilderness of Mirrors
Published in The New Criterion - May 2017 issue on June 7, 2017
Of Leaks, Links and Lies
Published in The New Criterion - April 2017 issue on May 26, 2017
Who Governs America?
Published in The New Criterion - March 2017 issue on April 6, 2017
Cessation of the Oracles
Published in The New Criterion - February 2017 issue on March 23, 2017
Faking it and Making it
Published in The New Criterion - January 2017 issue on February 23, 2017
Groovin’ on the Shock
Published in The New Criterion - December 2016 issue on January 12, 2017
After the Fact
Published in The New Criterion - October 2016 issue on November 3, 2016
The End of the News
Published in The New Criterion - September 2016 issue on September 30, 2016
Scandals and Experts
Published in The New Criterion - May 2016 issue on June 9, 2016
Politics Without Honor
Published in The New Criterion - April 2016 issue on April 30, 2016
A Man or a Mouse?
Published in The New Criterion - March 2016 issue on March 31, 2016
The King of Tastelessness
Published in The New Criterion - February 2016 issue on February 29, 2016
Manners Makyth Man
Published in The New Criterion - January 2016 issue on January 31, 2016
A Topos of Chaos
Published in The New Criterion - December 2015 issue on December 31, 2015
On Their Honor
Published in The Weekly Standard - October 5, 2015 issue on October 7, 2015
A Ghost’s Lament
Published in The Weekly Standard - July 27, 2015 issue on July 23, 2015
All the Latest Fashions
Published in The New Criterion - May 31, 2015 issue on June 9, 2015
Review: ‘Cowardice: A Brief History,’ by Chris Walsh
Published in New York Times on January 11, 2015
Oneself in Others
Published in The Weekly Standard on September 18, 2014
Dean of Contradictions
Published in The Weekly Standard on June 9, 2014
Casualties of War
Published in The Weekly Standard on January 3, 2014
Who’s The Hippest of Them All?
Published in The American Spectator on November 1, 2013
Movie Review: Gravity
Published in JamesBowman.net on October 25, 2013
True Moral Dilemmas Must Connect to Reality
Published in The New York Times on September 29, 2013
Bases Loaded: The Smooth Moves, and Rough Edges, of Baseball’s Infancy
Published in National Review Online on July 29, 2013
Wisdom of the Age
Published in The Weekly Standard on October 1, 2012
The SCOTUS’s Other Mistake
Published in The New Criterion Blog on June 29, 2012
The Dawn of Print
Published in The Weekly Standard on January 30, 2012
Believing Is Seeing
Published in The Weekly Standard on December 19, 2011
Cut and Dried
Published in The New Criterion
The Right Thing
Published in The Weekly Standard on January 17, 2011
Getting to Know Miley Cyrus
Published in The American Spectator on May 15, 2010
Unhappy Is the Land
Published in The New Criterion on February 1, 2010
American Heroes
Published in The Weekly Standard on January 4, 2010
Don't Change "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Published in The Weekly Standard on October 12, 2009
Decline of the Honor Culture
Published in Policy Review No. 156 on August 1, 2009
Oops! I'll Do It Again. And Again. And Again…
Published in Wall Street Journal on February 26, 2009
Honor Among Bankers
Published in Weekly Standard: Volume 014, Issue 19 on February 9, 2009
Defining Definitions Down
Published in Wall Street Journal on April 26, 2008
Media Monument
Published in National Review Online on April 11, 2008
The Wrong Stuff
Published in American Spectator on February 13, 2008
Mildly Mendacious Media
Published in National Review Online on January 29, 2008
Charlie Wilson's War
Published in American Spectator on January 7, 2008
The Fame Factor
Published in The American Spectator on December 10, 2007
So Long, Tony
Published in Weekly Standard Volume 012, Issue 40 on July 9, 2007
Unborn in the USA
Published in American Spectator on June 28, 2007