The Tea Party and the Constitution
The original Tea Party was neither a political organization nor a populist movement.
From the Editor's Desk
The Tea Party and the Constitution
The original Tea Party was neither a political organization nor a populist movement.
Correspondence
Essays
The Making of a Martyr
Can we finally tell the truth about the Kennedy assassination?
Selling the Framers Short
Selling the Framers Short
Land’s End
Machiavelli in Malibu.
Roe v. Wade at 40
Under the leadership of Chief Justice Warren Burger, who joined it in 1969, the Supreme Court departed from the course taken during the 16-year tenure of his predecessor, Earl Warren.
Selling the Framers Short
Since its publication in 1913, Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States has sparked controversy.
Wagner High and Low
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was in his own day, and remains on the bicentennial of his birth, the operatic composer most important to philosophers, literary men, honest-to-goodness intellectuals, and the usual assortment of those impressed above al
The City and the Man
Angels do not govern men in Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles.
Wagner High and Low
Appalling ideas set to beautiful music.
Immigration and American Exceptionalism
According to the Census Bureau, those born elsewhere in the world constituted 12.9% of the American population in 2010,
Book Reviews
The Thrill is Gone
A review of Collision 2012: Obama vs. Romney and the Future of Elections in America, by Dan Balz; The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, by Jonathan Alter; After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics, by James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney, Jr. The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election, by John Sides and Lynn Vavreck; and A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account, by Gabriel Schoenfeld
Information Slaves
A review of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier
Born on the Fourth of July
A review of Coolidge, by Amity Shlaes and Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President, by Charles C. Johnson.
Heart of Plum
A review of P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
Monument Valley
A review of The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend, by Glenn Franke
Suicide Pact
A review of The Crisis of the European Union: A Response, by Jürgen Habermas
To Rule and Be Ruled
A review of Aristotle's Teaching in the "Politics", by Thomas Pangle and Aristotle's "Politics": Second Edition, by Aristotle, translated by Carnes Lord
Retracing Our Steps
A review of Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Jeffrey Paul, and Fred D. Miller, Jr.
The Play Is the Thing
A review of Shakespeare's Political Wisdom, by Timothy Burns
Lincoln for Liberals
A review of Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict, by John Burt
Desperate Impact
Affirmative action is a classic example of the administrative state's pathology. Congress in the Great Society era outlawed "discrimination based on race."
Natural Right and Natural History
Paul Gauguin's most famous painting shows several human figures set in a Tahitian landscape. They display the human life cycle from infancy to adulthood to old age.
The Rule of Lawlessness
At first glance, On Constitutional Disobedience by Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman is the latest in a series of recent books that criticize the American Constitution severely, calling for its replacement by a more modern magna carta
Shadow Play
The Secret Life of Walter White
Why Breaking Bad is unexpectedly good.
Parthian Shot
America’s Collapse in the Middle East
In February 1945, when President Franklin Roosevelt received Ibn Saud on the deck of the USS Quincy, the king was a supplicant.