From the Editor's Desk
Forcing the Spring
What comes after the surge?
Correspondence
Essays
The Trouble with Limited Government
Are we all big-government conservatives now?
Reagan and the Historians
Giving the Gipper his due.
American Statecraft and the Iraq War
Learning from our mistakes.
Books in Brief
Book Reviews
A Thousand and One Nights
Rediscovering America's historical involvement in the Middle East.
No Euphoria Yet
Have we learned anything from the Iraq War?
Behind the Veil of Ignorance
John Rawls and the American political tradition.
Aryan Sister
The life of Leni Riefenstahl, the Third Reich's great documentary filmmaker.
From Under the Rubble
The life and works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a true friend of human liberty.
Mother Tongue
The invention of the English language.
Back to the Cave
Reviewing two new translations of Plato's Republic.
The Genius of Old New York
A review of Edith Wharton, by Hermione Lee
Making It New
The Curtain provides an elegant and compelling brief for the novel past, present, and future.
China Discovers the West
A history of China's relations with the West.
Welcome to Colonus
A review of The Theban Plays of Sophocles, translated by David R. Slavitt
The Broad Ground of Courage
Plato and noble courage.
Land of the Free
A retelling of American history, warts and all.
Shadow Play
Out of Focus
Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original.
A Rare Alignment
In the heat of a failing war, historical processes have unfrozen.
