From the Editor's Desk Hail, Columbia Space represents a second chance for mankind, a new world where we may start over and avoid our earthly mistakes. by Charles R. Kesler
Book Reviews Soldiers, Statesmen, and Victory America's political-military elite consistently get the big ones wrong. by Angelo M. Codevilla
Book Reviews Going South Because the South can no longer be taken for granted by Democrats, Democrats have moved to the right to maintain presidential viability. by Andrew E. Busch
Book Reviews The President and the Professors Presidents use professors for their own purposes, not the other way around. by John J. Pitney, Jr.
Book Reviews The Genteel Abolitionist Allowing moral questions to become again a matter for reasoned public debate and common action. by James R. Stoner, Jr.
Hail, Columbia by Charles R. Kesler Space represents a second chance for mankind, a new world where we may start over and avoid our earthly mistakes.
Soldiers, Statesmen, and Victory by Angelo M. Codevilla America's political-military elite consistently get the big ones wrong.
Going South by Andrew E. Busch 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 by John J. Pitney, Jr. Presidents use professors for their own purposes, not the other way around.
The Genteel Abolitionist by James R. Stoner, Jr. Allowing moral questions to become again a matter for reasoned public debate and common action.
Poetic Justice by Catherine Zuckert For all his celebration of human sympathy, Melville was not optimistic about the war's outcome.
Journalism with a Hammer by Ben Boychuk Mencken could never quite bring himself to regard anything "fundamental" or "permanent" without chuckling.
Wilson’s World by Patrick J. Garrity 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 by S. Paul Kapur The book offers gripping descriptions of today's killing fields, but ultimately cannot formulate a reason why outsiders must intervene in them.
A Postmodernist’s Prayer by Vincent Phillip Munoz Smith delivers a critical blow to our most precious freedom.
God and Man in America by Thomas G. West 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 by James H. Hutson Investigating the radical, unprecedented divorce of church from state that the Court has decreed since 1947.
Altered States by John C. Eastman 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 by Herman Belz 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 by John Derbyshire A review of A Short History of the World, by Geoffrey Blainey
Wedding Bell Blues by F. Carolyn Graglia A review of The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, by James Q. Wilson
Vanity of Vanities by Howard F. Ahmanson There are reasons to avoid conspicuous consumption that have nothing to do with the poor people starving in the Sahel.
American Conservatism and the Present Crisis by Harry V. Jaffa Restoring conservatism to first principles.
Confusion and Power by Angelo M. Codevilla The worst policy for the United States is to combine the unbridled tongue with the unready hand.
The Lost Science of Politics by Larry Peterman Reading, if you must, the American Political Science Review.
Of the Difference Between Formality and Dandification by Nicholas Antongiavanni Forget the president's cabinet, look to his wardrobe.