From the Editor's Desk
Correspondence
T.R. and American Democracy
Correspondence that takes up the legacy of Teddy Roosevelt; William Howard Taft's tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; gay marriage; and the political and moral pathologies of modern Italy.
Essays
The Higher Education Scandal
What Does Bowdoin Teach? And why it matters.
The Higher Education Hustle
Political correctness and the Credentials-Industrial Complex.
High Adventure and Sacred Mystery
In literature and in public life, Mark Helprin’s is an indispensable voice.
Aristocracy in America
Huckleberry Finn shows that a nation devoted to fresh starts will also invite false starts and upstarts.
Geography and World Politics
Becoming the world's only superpower can cause strange dreams.
Liberty and Union
Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence
Book Reviews
Dissent of Man
A review of Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, by Thomas Nagel and Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution, by Rebecca Stott
The Road to Freedom
A review of Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics, by Daniel Stedman Jones and The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression, by Angus Burgin
Doing Good by Doing Well
A review of Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't, by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames
The Unheavenly City
A review of Detroit: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff
The Not So Great American Novel
A review of Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel, by Philip F. Gura
A Giving of Accounts
A review of Crisis of the Strauss Divided, by Harry V. Jaffa
From Plato to NATO
A review of On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present, by Alan Ryan
Tolerating the Intolerant
A review of The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Pregnant Pause
A review of What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster, by Jonathan V. Last and How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization, by Mary Eberstadt.
Bad Script
A review of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, by Steven J. Ross
Marshall Law
A review of The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation, by R. Kent Newmyer
The Thinking Man’s Founder
A review of James Madison and the Making of America, by Kevin R. C. Gutzman; James Madison, by Richard Brookhiser; and James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation, by Jeff Broadwater
Blood-soaked History
A review of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, by Yang Jisheng
Captive Nations
A review of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, by Anne Applebaum
Truth Marching On
A review of American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (Library of America), edited by James G. Basker
The Good Life
A review of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus, by John M. Cooper
Lessons of Benghazi
Do Americans understand that war and death abhor a vacuum of strength
