From the Editor's Desk
Correspondence
Essays
The Central Proposition
The Lost Decade
Years after 9/11, America has neither peace nor victory.
A Natural Law Manifesto
With replies by David F. Forte and Michael M. Uhlmann.
May It Please the Court
The Need for Natural Law
Diane Ravitch Takes It All Back
But she had it right the first time.
Scouts’ Honor
The Boy Scout Handbook at 100.
Sour Grapes
Napa Valley is California, only more so.
Book Reviews
The Art of Persuasion
A review of The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009, by Irving Kristol
New World Order?
A review of On China, by Henry Kissinger
A New Birth of Economic Freedom
A review of Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform, by David E. Bernstein
Standing in the Need of Prayer
A review of Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World, by Jack M. Balkin
Redeeming Higher Education
A review of The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For, by Naomi Schaefer Riley
Modern Family
A review of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought, by Scott Yenor
De Luxe
A review of Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age, by Mosette Broderick
The Incredible Shrinking Presidency
A review of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, by Eric A. Posner
Getting to Democracy
A review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis Fukuyama
One-Dimensional Man
A review of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David Brooks
Shadow Play
Oprah’s World Mission
The high priestess of Change Your Life TV.
The Boitnott Doctrine
According to the Charlottesville Daily Progress, Doris Boitnott, assistant director of the Virginia Education Association (something one might once have called a union