
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.
No honor among thieves
James Bowman

On the “honor-shaped hole” in our culture.
The New Criterion / September 25, 2023
On some moral hazards
James Bowman

On the media’s claims to infallibility.
Articles
The New Criterion / May 1, 2023
The last of America
James Bowman

On the legacy of Jimmy Carter.
Articles
The New Criterion / April 1, 2023
Scandalum scandalorum
James Bowman

On the media’s latest hobbyhorse.
Articles
The New Criterion / March 1, 2023
Room for hate
James Bowman

On the Left’s demonization of its enemies.
Articles
The New Criterion / February 1, 2023
Visions of the future
James Bowman

On the aftermath of the midterm elections.
Articles
The New Criterion / January 1, 2023
Playing the Fear Card
James Bowman

On the midterms and the media’s treatment of Liz Truss.
Articles
The New Criterion / December 16, 2022
Only Joking
James Bowman

On media doublespeak.
Articles
The New Criterion / November 1, 2022
Hobgoblins
James Bowman

On the media’s peddling of “green” ideologies.
Articles
The New Criterion / October 1, 2022
A Lesson in Wrongology
James Bowman

On the media’s humility, or lack thereof.
Articles
The New Criterion / September 1, 2022