FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
Charles R. Kesler: The Supreme Court Leak
CORRESPONDENCE
ESSAYS
Mark Helprin: A Tragedy of Errors
The war in Ukraine in context and perspective.
William Voegeli: The Right Now
What Trump hath wrought…and revealed.
Christopher Caldwell: Boris Johnson’s Party Politics
Is the prime minister who saved Brexit headed for the exit?
Jeffrey H. Anderson: In the Red
Our glidepath to insolvency.
Carson Holloway: Father of His Country
George Washington’s American nationalism.
John M. Ellis: What Does Postmodernism Really Amount To?
Even its practitioners don’t know.
Algis Valiunas: Sickness of the Mind, Triumph of the Soul
Dostoevsky at the pinnacle of modern literature.
Andrew Klavan: The Gate to the Garden
How Coleridge and Wordsworth recovered from radicalism.
THE CRB INTERVIEW
Present at the Creation: Norman Podhoretz on the rise of the anti-American Left.
REVIEWS OF BOOKS
Ian Ona Johnson: The Warmonger
Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II, by Sean McMeekin.
Daniel Oliver: Everyman’s Bill Buckley
M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom, by Steven F. Hayward.
Randy E. Barnett: Deep-State Constitutionalism
Common Good Constitutionalism, by Adrian Vermeule.
David P. Goldman: The Skills to Pay the Bills
The Immigrant Superpower: How Brains, Brawn, and Bravery Make America Stronger, by Tim Kane.
Daniel J. Mahoney: The 1619 Lesson
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones; Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America, by Mary Grabar; and 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project, by Peter W. Wood.
Lucas E. Morel: Overcoming the House Divided
The Black Man’s President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality, by Michael Burlingame; and A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House, by Jonathan W. White.
Allen C. Guelzo: Bleak Nation:
American Colonies: The Settling of North America; American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804; and American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850, by Alan Taylor.
Edward J. Erler: The Pastness of the Past:
Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution, by Gordon S. Wood.
Carnes Lord: Head of State
The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation, by Daniel J. Mahoney.
James Bowman: For the Sake of Argument
Why Argument Matters, by Lee Siegel.
Diana Schaub: Pursuing Happiness
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment, by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey.
Noah M. Peterson: Millennial Malformation
The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults, by Mark Bauerlein.
SHADOW PLAY
Martha Bayles: A Whiff of Munich
The ghost of Neville Chamberlain.
PARTHIAN SHOT
Mark Helprin: Oscars Wild