From the Editor's Desk
The New New Deal
Obama and American capitalism.
Correspondence
Essays
The Wilderness Years Begin
Does conservatism need to reinvent itself?
The Ages of Jackson
Is Andrew Jackson an American hero?
Up From Poverty
The mysteries of economic growth.
What Caused the Financial Meltdown?
Too much success bred failure.
A Tender Salute and Pleasant Reply
Mark Helprin rebuts Peter Wehner's defense of the Bush Doctrine.
Book Reviews
The Two Billion Dollar Judge
Courts have not demonstrated the ability to produce the equal educational opportunity that they champion.
Econs and Humans
The economy, and economics, are in crisis, and the Obama administration has no idea how to fix it.
Thinking Like A Terrorist
Seeing Islamist jihad for what it is - an expression of pseudo religion and false reality.
The Ways and Means of War
Why do men fight the way they do?
Notes on the State of Jefferson
The impact and limits of philosophical thinking in the political world.
The Education Mill
The ways of the academy are not invulnerable to technological changes forced on everyone else.
Highborn Fools
Reviewing the memoirs of Duc de Saint-Simon, courtier at Louis XIV's Versailles.
Dead End
Reviewing a memoir on mortality.
The Iron Lady
An overdue reassessment of a remarkable statesman who still has much to teach us.
Light and Liberty
Jefferson's real greatness came not from the power that men gave to him but the power he had given to men.
Riddle of the Sands
None of Bush's alleged treacheries more riles leftists than that, on the international stage, he was one of them.
Hail to the Chief
A review of Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power, by Jeremy D. Bailey
Parthian Shot
First, Do No Harm
Improving the American health care system.
