From the Editor's Desk
Correspondence
Essays
The Great Repudiation
The New Frontier and the Neoconservatives
If the owl of Minerva flies at dusk, then those electoral beat-downs offered a promising moment to take stock of neoconservatism
A Czar is Born
A specter is haunting liberalism?â?ó?óÔÇÜ?¼?óÔé¼?Øthe specter of postmodernism.
God and Country
New light on religion in the American Founding.
Book Reviews
Neither Civil Nor Servants
A review of Plunder: How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation, by Steven Greenhut
So Sorry
A review of The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies, by Danielle Celermajer.
The Degradation of Modern Democracy
A review of The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life, by Kenneth Minogue.
Our Kind of Guy
A review of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, by Jonathan Alter.
Black Like Me
A review of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, by David Remnick.
Band of Brothers
A review of A Nation Forged in War: How World War II Taught Americans to Get Along, by Thomas Bruscino.
Block that Metaphor
A review of Church, State, and Original Intent, by Donald L. Drakeman.
All Sail, No Anchor
A review of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court, by by Jeff Shesol.
Front Row of the Second Rate
A review of The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography, by Selina Hastings.
Know Thy Enemy
A review of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, by Andrew C. McCarthy.
Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor
A review of Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, by Jack Rakove.
Not Lost in Translation
A review of The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier.
Moving on Up
A review of From Immigrants to Americans: The Rise and Fall of Fitting In, by Jacob L. Vigdor.
Live Free or Die
A review of The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future, by Arthur C. Brooks.
Balance is All
A review of American Politics, Then & Now: And Other Essays, by James Q. Wilson.
Game Over?
A review of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, by Tom Bissell.
A Runner Whom Renown Outran
A review of The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century, by Alan Brinkley.
Selling Capitalism Short
A review of The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, by Joyce Appleby.
Meeting the Goose
A review of Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic, by Michael Scammell.
Why Israel Needs Nuclear Weapons
Sixty-five years after Germany's campaign to exterminate the Jews, of the many countries in the world Israel is the only one repeatedly subjected to calls for its extinction
