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Volume XIII, Number 2, Spring 2013
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Editor's Note
Correspondence
Essays
Harvey C. Mansfield: The Higher Education Scandal
"What Does Bowdoin Teach?"—and why it matters.William Voegeli: The Higher Education Hustle
Political correctness and the Credentials-Industrial Complex.Algis Valiunas: High Adventure and Sacred Mystery
In literature and in public life, Mark Helprin's is an indispensable voice.Paul A. Cantor: Aristocracy in America
Huckleberry Finn shows that a nation devoted to fresh starts will also invite false starts and upstarts.Joseph Tartakovsky: Liberty and Union
The oratory and statecraft of Daniel Webster.Colin Dueck: Geography and World Politics
Rereading the grand strategists of the 20th century.Reviews of Books
John G. West: 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
Steven F. Hayward: 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
John Steele Gordon: 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
Michael Barone: The Unheavenly City
A review of Detroit: An American Autopsy
, by Charlie LeDuff
Mark Bauerlein: The Not So Great American Novel
A review of Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel
, by Philip F. Gura
Justin Dyer: Truth Marching On
A review of American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (Library of America)
, edited by James G. Basker
Jean M. Yarbrough: A Giving of Accounts
A review of Crisis of the Strauss Divided
, by Harry V. Jaffa
Mark Blitz: The Good Life
A review of Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
, by John M. Cooper
Christopher Caldwell: From Plato to NATO
A review of On Politics: A History of Political Thought: From Herodotus to the Present
, by Alan Ryan
Giorgi Areshidze: Tolerating the Intolerant
A review of The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
, by Martha C. Nussbaum
David P. Goldman: 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
John Meroney: Bad Script
A review of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
, by Steven J. Ross
Matthew J. Franck: 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
Michael P. Zuckert: 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
Charles Horner: Blood-soaked History
A review of Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962
, by Yang Jisheng
James Kirchick: Captive Nations
A review of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
, by Anne ApplebaumParthian Shot
Mark Helprin: Lessons of Benghazi
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