Correspondence
Essays
The Tao of Jerry
Mr. Brown goes to Sacramento…again.
The Mirage of Enumerated Powers
Limited government rests ultimately on moral reasoning.
Thinking About the Unthinkable, Again
Reductions in nuclear arms make America less safe.
Unfriending Friendship
What we’ve lost in the age of Facebook.
Jefferson, Adams, and the American Future
What their lively correspondence reveals about our politics.
Providence and Democracy
Tocqueville’s alliance of religion and liberty.
Our Borders, Ourselves
Americans’ appetite for cheap labor and cheap drugs endangers Mexico.
A Handshake Across the Centuries
The European roots of Chinua Achebe’s postcolonial classic.
Ronald Reagan at 100
Honoring the Gipper’s principles and his resolve.
A Golf Story
What a round of golf reveals about today’s higher education.
Book Reviews
Standing Pat
Soaring prescription drug prices were a hot issue at the time
Progressive Fat Cats
A review of Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America, by David Callahan
Conservatism’s Indispensable Man
A review of William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement, by Lee Edwards; and Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus, edited by Linda Bridges and Roger Kimball
The Utopian Fallacy
A review of The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope, by Roger Scruton
The Original Revolutionary
A review of Thomas Paine: A Collection of Unknown Writings, edited by Hazel Burgess; and The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine , by Jack Fruchtman, Jr.
God of War and Will
A review of Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam, by Fred M. Donner; and The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, by Robert R. Reilly
Reconstructing the Public Philosophy
A review of Designing a Polity: America's Constitution in Theory and Practice, by James W. Ceaser
Uneven Progress
A review of The History of the Social Sciences since 1945, edited by Roger E. Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine
A Plea for Positivism
A review of The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism, by Gary L. McDowell
Feminist Action Hero
A review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy , The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy , and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy , by Steig Larsson
Poet of the Street
A review of On Whitman , by C.K. Williams
Explaining Obama
A review of Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, by Stanley Kurtz; and The Roots of Obama's Rage, by Dinesh D'Souza
Natural Law Man
A review of Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law, by Hadley Arkes
Condition Critical
A review of The Truth About Obamacare, by Sally C. Pipes
Back to Basics
A review of The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence, edited by Jack N. Rakove; and The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide, by Seth Lipsky
Loose Lips Sink Ships
A review of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, by Gabriel Schoenfeld
Birth of a Nation
A review of Theodore Roosevelt's History of the United States: His Own Words, Selected and Arranged by Daniel Ruddy, by Daniel Ruddy
Exceptionally American
A review of Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, by Claude S. Fischer
Decider-in-Chief
A review of Decision Points, by George W. Bush
Radio Liberty
A review of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age, by Adrian Johns
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Problem
A review of The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century, by Peter Watson
Making Religion Safe for Democracy
A review of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents, by Ian Buruma
Shadow Play
The Ultimate Social Network
Cambridge, MA, March 15, 2014—Noh Hao, at 25 the social media’s youngest—and first female—multibillionaire, explains her meteoric success in an exclusive interview with Martha Bayles.
The Common Defense
further reductions in American military power are warranted and unavoidable
From the Editor's Desk
A Decade of CRB
A decade of CRB?.