James Bowman
Resident Scholar
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.
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.
Playing the Fear Card
James Bowman
On the midterms and the media’s treatment of Liz Truss.
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The New Criterion / December 16, 2022
Only Joking
James Bowman
On media doublespeak.
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The New Criterion / November 1, 2022
Hobgoblins
James Bowman
On the media’s peddling of “green” ideologies.
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The New Criterion / October 1, 2022
A Lesson in Wrongology
James Bowman
On the media’s humility, or lack thereof.
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The New Criterion / September 1, 2022
Reality Check
James Bowman
To a greater extent than ever, those on both sides of the political fence, and even those sitting on it, are only talking and writing to and for people who already agree with them.
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The New Criterion / June 28, 2022
World-Shaking Events
James Bowman
It took Protestant Christianity hundreds of years to create and inculcate in ordinary people the idea of the kind of middle-class respectability and decency that Bertie Wooster was always at odds with.
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The New Criterion / April 28, 2022
For the Sake of Argument
James Bowman
Our politics is now a clash of rival dogmas rather than anything our grandfathers would have recognized as argument.
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Claremont Review of Books / April 1, 2022
Real Science
James Bowman
Scientists turned politicians automatically become politicians first, scientists after.
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The New Criterion / March 15, 2022
Vulgar Chants
James Bowman
The media’s unofficial commissars of the Left have to keep the pressure up on behalf of ideological conformity in order to hold the “woke” coalition together—no matter how disconnected from reality they may be.
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The New Criterion - December 2021 issue / January 28, 2022
Volte-face
James Bowman
Democrats and the media continually urge Americans to get ourselves onto “the right side of history” — which, paradoxically, also means leaving history itself behind us in our inevitable progress towards the progressively promised land. The right side of history turns out to be the one that’s turned away from it.
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The New Criterion - May 2021 issue / June 17, 2021
