James Bowman has recently written a book on the history of honor in the twentieth century.
Mr. Bowman received a 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. He was a teacher at Westminster School and Portsmouth Grammar School in England for nine years before returning to the U.S. as Washington correspondent of The Spectator of London in 1989.
He has worked as a freelance journalist since that time, 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.
Among the other publications to which he has contributed are Harper's, The National Interest, The Public Interest, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Evening Standard of London, Scotland on Sunday, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph of London, The American Enterprise, Reason, The Weekly Standard and National Review.
A collection of Mr. Bowman's writings on honor can be found here. Among the most notable is "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. He also contributed a chapter, "Keen about Death: The Lost Language of National Honor" to the book Our Brave New World: Essays on the Impact of September 11 (Hoover Institution Press, 2002), edited by Wladyslaw Pleszczynski.
Mr. Bowman's latest movie reviews, article, and essays can be found at JamesBowman.net.
Education
B.A. Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania;
B.A., M.A., A.B.D. Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, England.
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