From the Editor's Desk
After the Thumping
Conservatism moving forward.
Correspondence
Essays
The Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood
Reassessing liberalism's favorite historian.
Playwright of the Globe
Shakespeare tried to understand the world, and now the world tries to understand him.
The Constitution and Mr. Bush
Why the president cannot leave constitutional interpretation to the courts.
R.I.P.: Leonard W. Levy
Steven F. Hayward remembers a great Claremont teacher and scholar.
Books in Brief
The Disputed Question
Harry Jaffa and Michael Uhlmann on the Supreme Court and the Declaration of Independence.
The Literary Tenor of the Times
The Hidden Meanings of Bernard de Con's Account of the Assault on Fort Ticonderoga.
Book Reviews
Just Examples
History, natural law, and Leo Strauss.
A New Deal for Roosevelt
The presidency of FDR, from the perspective of the post-Reagan era.
Silver-Tongued Democrat
The life of William Jennings Bryan.
God of Battles
Examining the Christian clergy's intellectual and moral leadership during the Civil War.
Dateline—Greeneland
Exploring the Europe of the 1930s.
Like a Mighty Wind
The gospel of the born-again Religious Left.
Theater of War
Journalism, conspiracy-mongering, and the Iraq War.
The Buck Stopped Here
The revival of President Harry Truman.
Supreme Wit
The jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia.
The Mad, the Grim, and the Sot
A review of Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel
L’Americain
Nicolas Sarkozy and the future of the French center-right.
Strategically Challenged
Insight into the devolution of America's foreign policy establishment.
Looking Backward
Alan Gibson and the study of the founding's historiography.
Classical Liberal
John Stuart Mill and the shaping of classical liberalism.
No Soldier Left Behind
Why the G.I. Bill was the most successful social welfare program in American history.
Hacks Americana
Journalism and the American founding.
Blame America First
What anti-Americanism means, what causes it, and how much it even matters.
Ungrateful Volcano
A history of foreign involvement in Iraq and what it means for America.
The Appreciative Mode
The history of novels, from Burke to Trilling.
Shadow Play
Reel Queens
The Queen and Marie Antoinette ask whether the modern world can understand monarchy anymore.
