Bring Back the Constitution
Bringing the Constitution back would lend the 2008 race a presidential seriousness and focus.
From the Editor's Desk
Bring Back the Constitution
Bringing the Constitution back would lend the 2008 race a presidential seriousness and focus.
Correspondence
Essays
Oh, What A Tangled Webb
Democrats want to love the senator's problematic populism.
The Case for the Strong Executive
Now is not the time to fear the imperial presidency.
Encountering Islam
Western travelers in the Muslim world.
Larry McMurtry and the American West
Larry McMurtry has written 29 novels, five collections of essays, several screenplays.
Books in Brief
Book Reviews
The Gelded Age
A review of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, by Mark Steyn
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
Dinesh D'Souza, the Cultural Left, and 9/11.
A Tell-All with Nothing to Tell
A review of The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege, by Damon Linker
Empire and Its Discontents
A review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks;
Made in America
Did the first wave of globalization help make America exceptional relative to European nations?
Up from Victimhood
The Age of White Guilt signifies only a peculiar extension of the Age of White Racism.
Church Militant
A review of God's War: A New History of the Crusades, by Christopher Tyerman
Alexander in Afghanistan
Viewing Alexander's campaign in Afghanistan through the eyes of a footsoldier.
Forging a Nation
The Civil War and the way that America has come to see itself.
Unnatural Acts
Detailing the assault on biotechnology by irrational religious believers.
Philosophy and Revelation
Leo Strauss and the theologico-political problem.
Cultivated Taste
On the difficulty of translating Virgil's greatest poem.
Arms and the Man
Rejecting deterministic interpretations of military innovation.
From Polis to Imperium
An epic history of the classical world from Homer to Hadrian.
New World Order
Kagan argues that, even during its formative years, America was never a modest, insular nation.
Guide for the Perplexed
Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy,
by Thomas L. Pangle; Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism,
by Steven B. Smith; and The Truth about Leo Strauss:
Political Philosophy and American Democracy,
by Catherine H. Zuckert and Michael Zuckert.
Shadow Play
Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen
The merciless comic keeps hitting below the Borscht Belt.
China as a Rising Nuclear Power
China is not as technically dependent as we are.