A Righteous Wind
The Lincoln-Douglas debates set a bad example for American politics.
From the Editor's Desk
A Righteous Wind
The Lincoln-Douglas debates set a bad example for American politics.
Correspondence
Essays
Civil Rights and the Conservative Movement
What the Right got wrong and right.
Rich Country, Strong Arms
We ignore China’s grand strategy at our peril.
Bearing Witness
The life and character of Clarence Thomas.
Book Reviews
Man of a Thousand Faces
A review of Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography, by Alberto Manguel
The Critic Who Sometimes Exists
Edmund Wilson remains the finest critic American literature has produced; we can only hope for a better.
Our Robed Rulers
Has the science of politics improved since the American founders wrote the Constitution?
City on a Hill
The central problem in politics - the theological-political problem - reduced to 1st amendment jurisprudence.
Will the Real Liberal Please Stand Up?
Brink Lindsey attempts to recover that good liberalism.
The Great and the Good
A review of The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics, by Rober Faulkner
Nixon’s the One
Nixon's influence on the way we practice politics today.
What Howe Hath Wrought
Reviewing a new history of the United States from 1815 to 1848.
Puritans and Cavaliers
A new translation allows the reader to experience the grandeur of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Washing Mud from Marble
Conservative philosophy must do better at vindicating America's greatest president.
Beyond the Nation State
The present E.U. philosophical framework is, ultimately, incompatible with liberal democracy.
Make the Sudan an Offer It Can’t Refuse
Which would the regime in Sudan prefer - annihilation or the discontinuation of its campaign of mass murder?