From the Editor's Desk
Correspondence
Essays
How Obama Won, and Lost
Extremism in Defense of Liberty
The Republican party has gone insane. Not whacky-but-basically-harmless, Uncle Joe Biden insane. We're talking remorseless-sociopath insane.
Justice Alito, Dissenting
What free speech is, and isn’t.
Moral Sense and Social Science
Reading James Q. Wilson.
Vatican II at 50
The Council’s lasting consequences.
Books in Brief
Book Reviews
Up From Liberalism
A review of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism, by Charles R. Kesler
The Trite Stuff
A review of The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, by Jonah Goldberg
The Ghost of Herbert Hoover
A review of Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath, edited with an introduction by George H. Nash
Reagan Democrat
A review of Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick, by Peter Collier
The Spirit of the Law
A review of America's Unwritten Constitution: The Precedents and Principles We Live By, by Akhil Reed Amar
The Necessity of Freedom
A review of Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Code of the Gentleman
A review of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins
The Wealth of Nations
A review of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The Poverty of Communitarianism
A review of What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael J. Sandel
Rawls Meets Hayek
A review of Free Market Fairness, by John Tomasi
Trouble in the Golden State
A review of California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism, by Jonathan Bell; and Eureka!: How to Fix California, by Arthur B. Laffer
The Perversity of Diversity
A review of Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It, by Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr.
Dollars to Deanlets
A review of The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters, by Benjamin Ginsberg
Veiled Threat
A review of Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World, by Sadakat Kadri
The Pursuit of Pleasure
A review of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Stephen Greenblatt
Nature’s God
A review of The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, Revolution, by Gregg L. Frazer
The Church of What’s Happening Now
A review of Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics, by Ross Douthat
A Musical Messiah?
A review of Gustav Mahler, by Jens Malte Fischer
Whither the Navy?
President Barack Obama believes, as he put it in his third debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney, that though