Our Predicament
How America can sustain a coherent foreign and military policy for the Long War.
From the Editor's Desk
Our Predicament
How America can sustain a coherent foreign and military policy for the Long War.
Correspondence
Essays
The War in Lebanon
Why Israel won this battle, but greater ones lie ahead.
Why the GOP is Flunking Higher Education
The Republicans risk turning America's universities into a federally-funded no-truth zone.
The Era of Big Ideas is Over
Will liberals embrace a future of ad hocery?
Born American, But in the Wrong Place
A personal reflection on the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.
The Road to Condemning Guantanamo
The Nazis, moral equivalence, and the U.N. Guantanamo report.
The Rise and Decline of al-Qaeda
How al-Qaeda, once a pioneer among Islamists, has become outmoded.
Books in Brief
Book Reviews
Suicide of the West
Problems that Western Europe not only fails to solve, but even properly to recognize.
Faith-based Liberalism
Terrorism and the limits of liberalism.
The Cost of Good Intentions
Global poverty and the lackluster results of foreign aid.
The $10,000 Solution?
A review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray
Amicus Brief
On friendship.
Giving Honor Its Due
Restoring honor in post-Vietnam America.
The Pettifoggery of War
Preemption in an age of terrorism and nuclear weapons.
In Search of a Public Philosophy
Nature and History in American political development.
Sage Advice
What would the Founders do?
A People’s History of Reconstruction
A review of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, by Eric Foner
The Prince and the Dandy
Defending classic men's wear against the whims of fashion.
What Hath God Wrought?
Christianity and the rise of Western civilization.
Spinning Spinoza
Bringing the heretic back into the Jewish fold.
If Men Were Angels
People may hold religious traditions in common, but democracies cannot defer to revelation.
Respecting Reagan
Ronald Reagan, a man of imagination.
Florid Balderdash
The takeover of literary theorists in the English departments of American universities.
We, the People
Reviewing what is quite possibly the best single volume on the Constitution since 1833.
Beating Ploughshares into Swords
Ineffective government, Western philanthropy, and Africa's future.
Mystic Chords of Memory
The problem of misunderstanding Lincoln.
The Right Stuff
A review of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia.
Shadow Play
Birth of a Blockbuster
An inside look at Dan Brown's new novel.
The Worst Generation Faces the Greatest Peril
We face a danger that approaches steadily from the far distance like a tsunami in slow motion.
America’s Game
What is it about Roberto Clemente that makes him an American hero?