Recalling Political Science
It's a shame that bad political science can't be recalled as easily as the California governor.
From the Editor's Desk
Recalling Political Science
It's a shame that bad political science can't be recalled as easily as the California governor.
Correspondence
Essays
War in the Absence of Strategic Clarity
More than merely winning the war in Iraq, we needed to stun the Arab World.
Ends, Enemies, and Friends
Victory comes when enemies are identified correctly, then killed or cowed.
The Long View: Democracy And Strategy In Iraq
The United Kingdom is one of the handful of democracies in the world.
Book Reviews
Hillary’s Makeover
As dreadful as these books are in a literary sense, they are politically instructive.
Hamilton And The Historians
In these pages, one finds Hamilton, the friend of republicanism and humanity.
Being Earnest
Why is it that America is loved and despised, resented and emulated and envied—often all at the same time?
Natural Rights And Natural History
Jeopardizing the claims of the science of natural rights by allowing them to be disproved by the natural sciences is foolish.
Rehnquist’s Court and the Living Constitution
Does the living-constitution vision ultimately contribute to the happiness of the American people?
Disarming America
By rights, Lott's new book ought to have a powerful effect on the gun control debate in the country.
Extremists All!
Levitas leaves the impression that there is nothing native to the United States that might enable us to resist the evils of racism and anti-semitism.
Crushing One’s Enemies
Dating only from the 17th century, The Book of Five Rings is a Japanese work on the specifics of martial arts and swordsmanship.
Terrorist Or Madman?
John Brown was not insane, and we underestimate his rationality very much at our peril.
The Word is Nigh
Podhoretz's book is at once a work of biblical scholarship and polemic.
Reading Up on Islam
Most books on Islam should be ignored, but there are a few gems.
A Readable Kant
This new edition caters to those seeking a readable, readily available, and reliably literal translation of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
Writing Straight With Crooked Lines
Weigel argues that the Catholic Church in the United States is going through the worst crisis of its long history
Nothing to Declare
Dershowitz would reclaim the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson and the revolutionaries of 1776.
Unfinished Testament
America's story is interwoven with religion and cannot be told accurately without noting Christianity's influence.
Calling Liberalism’s Bluff
Anti-foundationalists have not in fact succeeded in shutting down the possibility of philosophy
The Christian Socrates
Fortin offers a distinctively medieval view of the permanent question as to what is politics.
Uncivil Liberties
Whether citizens embody virtue is not an issue in Neier's atomistic view of liberty
Angst, American Style
Certain strains of American existentialism court political imprudence while others preserve the tokens of hope and truth.
The Ideologue And The Pragmatist
Telling the history of conservatism exposes the power of ideas to form, deform, or reform the world we inhabit.
The Lonely Scold
Is Nader's truculence and grating moralism simply the product of the peculiar personality or is it the result of a "public interest" political ideology
The War To End All Politics
Many Europeans have succumbed to the temptation of a transnational community that will put an end to politics
Springtime in Paris
International peace and justice requires the sustained application of power and purpose that cannot be generated by the international community.
The Limits Of Freedom
A greater biological and mechanistic understanding of human nature does not mean we must abandon human values.
Why Males Rule
The American constitutional regime is designed to satisfy both the manly desire to rule and popular desire to be free from tyrannical rule
A Rake’s Progress
Brookhiser gives us a portrait of a man who is too worldly to be approached as a hero, yet not so world-weary that we can be cynical.
The Libertarian Dodge
By treating civil rights and natural rights, Kaminer would deprive the people of their right to peace and order
Life, Liberty, And The Defense of Human Nature
If left alone, biotechnology will reduce our humanity and virtue.
Winning One For The Gipper
Reagan's devotion to principle allowed him to see past the immediate crisis and go on to some of his greatest successes.
Containing Multitudes:The Politics of the Library of America
Books great, near-great, and not-at-all great in the Library of America.
Better Off Blindfolded
Casting a jaundiced eye at "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy."
New Vintage, Same Sour Grapes
A BBC documentary that misses the point of the American Revolution.
Michelangelo’s Catechism
Paul Barolsky views the Sistine Chapel afresh, in Michelangelo and the Finger of God.