Correspondence
Book Reviews
King Mob
Andrew Jackson, populist.
Colossus
Julius Caesar was a colossus who outgrew Rome.
Diversity and Its Limits
The crisis of American democracy demands a clear-eyed understanding of the ways in which differences in ethnic groups and some sources of political polarization are never going to be resolved.
It’s Only Rock and Roll
Rock and Roll is dead.
Peace Through Strength
The U.S. armed forces have done more for world peace than all of the Left-liberal transnational networks combined.
Between Marx and Aquinas
Alasdair MacIntyre's rejection of liberalism.
Life After Roe
A right to abortion dissolves the categories of human life that nature itself established.
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Avoiding war with China is the most urgent task of our lifetime.
Deplorables’ Troubadour
Merle Haggard sang the American working-man blues.
Shutting the Overton Window
Restricting free speech on campus goes mainstream.
Law Man
William Barr knows the indispensability of the rule of law.
Eminent Victorians
The Victorians reformed Britain to meet the demands of modernity.
Leo Strauss Goes to Shul
Orthodox Jews confront Leo Strauss' defense of orthodoxy.
An American Originalist
Justice Thomas's judicial revolution bears fruit.
Ties That Bind
The United States and Israel share a special relationship.
An Indispensable Abolitionist
Salmon P. Chase was America's foremost developer and proponent of both constitutional and political abolitionism.
Dividing by Race
Our racial classification system is useless for deciding who should get preferences in education, business, or anywhere else.
Talking About the Constitution
Our early republic fiercely contested the meaning of the American Revolution and the Constitution.
Location, Location, Location
The Abraham Accords were a massive geopolitical shift.
O Sanity!
The history of psychiatry is replete with horrors.
Essays
Taking Aristophanes Seriously
The original gross-out comic.
Restoring the Constitution
Clarence Thomas dismantles the fiction of substantive due process.
“Our Democracy,” Not Our Constitution
Packing the Supreme Court and the Senate.
Nuclear Autumn
How the world almost ended in 1983.
Leveling, Up and Down
Some are more unequal than others.
Parthian Shot
The Heart of the Matter
Strike the center, and the rest will follow.
Shadow Play
The Pure Radiance of the Past
The BBC series Wolf Hall is as beautifully cut, fitted, embroidered, and bejeweled as the heavy, intimidating garments of the Tudor nobility.
From the Editor's Desk
The Red Wave Reconsidered
The Republican presidential debate has begun.