FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
by Charles R. Kesler
CORRESPONDENCE
ESSAYS
Jeffrey H. Anderson: The Masking of America:
Faceless people make compliant subjects, not good citizens.
William Voegeli: Criminal Negligence:
Liberals would rather live with crime than fight it.
Algis Valiunas: American Pragmatist:
William James and the modern sensibility.
Glenn Ellmers: Why Harry V. Jaffa Matters:
He saw our house dividing once again.
Christopher Caldwell: Little Italy:
Less populous, more populist.
REVIEWS OF BOOKS
Michael Anton: Right Flight:
Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of
America, by Kenneth P. Miller.
Charles Murray: Two Cheers for Meritocracy:
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?,
by Michael J. Sandel.
Peter C. Myers: Strange Gods:
American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of
Our Time, by Joshua Mitchell.
Eric Kaufmann: Racism All the Way Down:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson.
Myron Magnet: The Making of the Administrative State:
America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism,
by Ronald J. Pestritto.
Bradley C.S. Watson: Yesterday Once More:
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How
We Can Do It Again, by Robert D. Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett.
Kyle Shideler: Taking It to the Streets:
Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy, by Andy Ngô.
James W. Ceaser: Thinking Like a Conservative:
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, by Edmund Fawcett.
Forrest Nabors: The Genius of American Oligarchy:
Calhoun: American Heretic, by Robert Elder.
Randy E. Barnett: Getting Rights Wrong:
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart, by Jamal Greene.
John Daniel Davidson: Teach Your Children Well:
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos, by Sohrab Ahmari.
Amy L. Wax: Family Matters:
Little Platoons: A Defense of Family in a Competitive Age, by Matt Feeney.
Daniel Johnson: Between Kaiser and Führer:
November 1918: The German Revolution, by Robert Gerwarth.
Charles Horner: Struggle Session:
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by Yang Jisheng, translated and edited by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian.
IN MEMORIAM
Patrick J. Garrity (1955–2021)
Larry P. Arnn and Christopher Flannery reflect on a long-time friend and CRB contributor.
SHADOW PLAY
Martha Bayles: Souls on Wheels:
The film Nomadland expands the scope and meaning of the book that inspired it.
PARTHIAN SHOT
Mark Helprin: Two Blind Mice
