Correspondence
Soft-Hearted
A review of Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, by Charles Murray
Democracy and Arms Control
A review of Arms Control: Myth Versus Reality, edited by Richard F. Starr
Barbarism with a Human Face
A review of Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, by Benjamin Barber
Wrong-Headed
A review of Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment, by Gary Wills
Liberal Education
A review of The Beckmann Retrospective, an exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Reason, Politics, and Christian Belief
A review of The God of Faith and Reason: Foundations of Christian Theology by Robert Sokolowski
Socrates and Political Philosophy
A review of Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds, translated with notes by Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West
Literary Criticism
A review of The American Novel and the Way We Live Now, by John W. Aldridge, and Panic Among the Philistines, by Bryan F. Griffin
William Kennedy, Revised Edition
A review of Ironweed, The Ink Truck, Legs, and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, by William Kennedy
Nobility in the American Founding
A review of American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760-1805, edited by Charles S. Hyneman & Donald S. Lutz
Books in Brief
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Flick-Flack
Essays
The Teacher as Learner
On Discussion
Win a Few, Lose a Few
WWII Remembered