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Hail, Columbia
Space represents a second chance for mankind, a new world where we may start over and avoid our earthly mistakes.
Book Reviews
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Victory
America's political-military elite consistently get the big ones wrong.
Going South
Because the South can no longer be taken for granted by Democrats, Democrats have moved to the right to maintain presidential viability.
The President and the Professors
Presidents use professors for their own purposes, not the other way around.
The Genteel Abolitionist
Allowing moral questions to become again a matter for reasoned public debate and common action.
The Clone Wars
Caution always has more to say than heedless "progress."
Poetic Justice
For all his celebration of human sympathy, Melville was not optimistic about the war's outcome.
Journalism with a Hammer
Mencken could never quite bring himself to regard anything "fundamental" or "permanent" without chuckling.
Wilson’s World
A review of a The Ideas that Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century, by Michael Mandelbaum
Doing What We Can
The book offers gripping descriptions of today's killing fields, but ultimately cannot formulate a reason why outsiders must intervene in them.
Shooting Starr
A Postmodernist’s Prayer
Smith delivers a critical blow to our most precious freedom.
God and Man in America
Today's predominant version of separation of church and state is not only hostile to the founders' understanding, but hostile to religion.
Up Against the Wall
Investigating the radical, unprecedented divorce of church from state that the Court has decreed since 1947.
Altered States
The lesson drawn by Judge Noon is that the Court should more or less abdicate its responsibility for enforcing the Constitution's limits.
Visions and Revisions
Foner's themes are the politics of historical understanding and the relationship between the historian and his own world.
Here We Go Over the Pamirs
A review of A Short History of the World, by Geoffrey Blainey
Last Man Standing
A review of Richard Rorty, by Alan Malachowski
Wedding Bell Blues
A review of The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, by James Q. Wilson
Vanity of Vanities
There are reasons to avoid conspicuous consumption that have nothing to do with the poor people starving in the Sahel.
Essays
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis
Restoring conservatism to first principles.
Confusion and Power
The worst policy for the United States is to combine the unbridled tongue with the unready hand.
The Lost Science of Politics
Reading, if you must, the American Political Science Review.
Correspondence
Furst Things
Love, honor, and intrigue in 1930s Europe.
Of the Difference Between Formality and Dandification
Forget the president's cabinet, look to his wardrobe.