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Volume XII, Number 2, Spring 2012
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Promises, Promises
Correspondence
Malcolm and Martin; How We Fight; Peaceable Kingdom; Built to LastEssays
James Q. Wilson: Tocqueville and America
Tocqueville understood democracy, but the founders understood America.William Voegeli: Reclaiming Democratic Capitalism
Workers of the world—invest!Michael Anton: Paradise Lost and Regained
The Beach Boys' Smile is an American masterpiece.Algis Valiunas: Left, Right, and Dickens
He was a conservative liberal, and a liberal conservative.Tao Wang: Leo Strauss in China
A new dialogue between West and East.Matthew Continetti: Dungeons and Dragons
The power politics of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones.Reviews of Books
Jack Rakove: Hail, Britannia
A review of Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
, by Maya Jasanoff
Kenneth Minogue: 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
Angelo M. Codevilla: The Sources of American Conduct
A review of George F. Kennan: An American Life
, by John Lewis Gaddis
Jonathan V. Last: Render Unto Geezers
A review of One Nation under AARP: The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future
, by Frederick R. Lynch
Daniel DiSalvo: 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
Stephen H. Balch: How the West 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
Neil Rogachevsky: Losing Their Religion
A review of How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too)
, by David P. Goldman
John R. Bolton: Against the Globalistas
A review of Sovereignty or Submission: Will Americans Rule Themselves or be Ruled by Others?
, by John Fonte
Rita Koganzon: Rumor Has It
A review of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit
, by Joseph Epstein
Joseph Tartakovsky: I Still Expect to Win
A review of A Matter of Principle
, by Conrad Black
Cheryl Miller: The Divine Miss Jane
A review of Why Jane Austen?
, by Rachel M. Brownstein
Rafael Major: A Free Soul
A review of Shakespeare's Freedom
, by Stephen Greenblatt
Mark Blitz: Hobbes Defanged
A review of The Platonian Leviathan
, by Leon Harold Craig
Steven B. Smith: Being and Tyranny
A review of Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting
, by Richard Velkley
Colin Dueck: 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
Jakub J. Grygiel: 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 NyeParthian Shot
Mark Helprin: Obama Hypnotized by Europa
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Symposium
John Marini: Abandoning the Constitution
John Marini analyzes America's departure from constitutional governemnt.James W. Ceaser: Restoring the Constitution
James W. Ceaser charts a course back to the Constitution.
