From the Editor's Desk
Bush’s Philosophy
What is Bush's judicial philosophy?
Essays
Some Call it Empire
Imperial delusions are no substitute for defeating our enemies.
The Crisis of American National Identity
Should America be defined by Anglo-Protestant culture?
Continental Drift
Why Europe is not a union.
The Other American Exceptionalism
Why the European Right is so left.
The Mind of Benedict XVI
A lifetime reflection on theology and politics.
Book Reviews
Rebels Without a Clue
A review of Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Left Behind
Taylor insists that our rights can be vigorously defended by a purely "pragmatic assessment."
The Unlovable Mr. Adams
Though it is difficult to genuinely like John Adams, it is equally difficult to not admire him.
The Rights and Wrongs of Alan Dershowitz
Dershowitz's secular theory of the origin of rights.
The Measure of Greatness
Seeking the man behind the myth of Abraham Lincoln.
Boys Will Be Boys
Why gender matters.
Involuntary Associations
Liberal democracy will not sustain itself if it does not believe itself to be rationally defensible.
Talking Politics
The politics and philosophy of Michael Oakeshott.
Rerunning Reagan
Reagan was, to an unusual extent, a politician of ideas.
Selective Justice
All is not well with the main process available for exercising democratic control over the Court.
Being Unreasonable
A defense of the French and English Enlightenment against postmodernism.
Imagine There’s No Heaven
Atheism in the modern age.
The Cost of Ignorance
The soaring costs of higher education and the Tuition Advance Act.
Bad Council
The United Nations has dramatically lost its way over the past 60 years.
Discreet Revolutionary
Remembering John Jay.
Herd Animals
Why does the Left so often abstain from defending not only American interests but the U.S. itself?
First, Do No Harm
Can American medicine really change, or will it just slide towards greater government control?
