From the Editor's Desk
Correspondence
Essays
Tocqueville and America
Tocqueville understood democracy, but the founders understood America.
Reclaiming Democratic Capitalism
Workers of the world—invest!
Paradise Lost and Regained
The Beach Boys’ Smile is an American masterpiece.
Left, Right, and Dickens
He was a conservative liberal and a liberal conservative.
Leo Strauss in China
A new dialogue between West and East.
Dungeons and Dragons
The power politics of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.
Abandoning the Constitution
America has a problem, not because of our Constitution but because constitutionalism as a theoretical doctrine is no longer meaningful in our politics
Restoring the Constitution
Obama Hypnotized by Europa
Barack Obama asks America to cast off many of its traditions in favor of the European model of governance and society
Book Reviews
Hail, Britannia
A review of Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, by Maya Jasanoff
Opiate of the Intellectuals
A review of Why Marx Was Right, by Terry Eagleton and How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism, by Eric Hobsbawm
Render Unto Geezers
A review of One Nation Under AARP: The Fight Over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future by Frederick Lynch
State of the Union
A review of Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America, by Joseph A. McCartin
How the West was Won
A review of Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris and Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson
Losing Their Religion
A review of How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too), by David P. Goldman
Against the Globalistas
A review of Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?, by John Fonte
Rumor Has It
A review of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit, by Joseph Epstein
I Still Expect to Win
A review of A Matter of Principle, by Conrad Black
The Divine Miss Jane
A review of Why Jane Austen?, by Rachel M. Brownstein
A Free Soul
A review of Shakespeare's Freedom, by Stephen Greenblatt
Hobbes Defanged
A review of The Platonian Leviathan, by Leon Harold Craig
Being and Tyranny
A review of Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting, by Richard Velkley
Bringing Out the Good China
A review of A Contest for Supremacy: China, America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia, by Aaron L. Friedberg
Power Surge
A review of Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order, by G. John Ikenberry and The Future of Power, by Joseph Nye
The Sources of American Conduct
A review of George F. Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis