Conservatism and Civil Rights
Correspondence from the Fall, 2008 issue of the CRB.
Conservatism and Civil Rights
Correspondence from the Fall, 2008 issue of the CRB.
Essays
The Audacity of Barack Obama
Taking the Democratic nominee seriously.
Reforming Big Government
The welfare state can’t go on indefinitely, but it does.
The Presidential Nomination Mess
Every four years, it’s a whole new ball game—with different rules
Is There Intelligent Life on Television?
The small screen’s new sophistication.
Book Reviews
Georgia on My Mind
Are we doomed to enter into another confrontation with Russia - a new cold war?
First, Survive
Why do Jews figure so prominently in the politics of regimes that also threaten the rest of the world?
Eyes Wide Open
A review of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy
Sirens of Davos
Is America's relative power ebbing in the face of advances by other countries?
When Worlds Collide
Reviewing two very different histories of the early conquests of Islam.
Raising the Bar
Teles gives an account of the rise of the conservative legal movement.
Leafing Through Old Books
How do we know Barack Obama hasn't secretly been reading Pufendorf?
Property Rights and the Web
Zittrain argues that the "generativity" that made the internet unique is now in danger.
Inside the Box
A review of Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt
Progressive Conservative?
A review of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, by Joshua David Hawley
In the Beginning
Reviewing a new history of the first Arab-Israeli War.
Confused About Conservatism
There is a division within American conservatism about whether
the revival of limited government remains a defining goal.