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Volume XIII, Number 1, Winter 2012/13
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: How Low Can We Go?
Correspondence
Essays
Algis Valiunas: Godlike, Godly Tolstoy
Each unhappy genius is unhappy in his own way.Alan W. Dowd: Unmanned Combat
Drones and the dangers of risk-free war.Cheryl Miller: Keeping Up Appearances
Does Downton Abbey matter?Reviews of Books
William Voegeli: The Same Old Deal
A review of The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
, by Michael Grunwald
Richard Vedder: The Invisible Handout
A review of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
, by Michael Lind
Christopher Caldwell: Gay Rites
A review of From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage
, by Michael J. Klarman
David F. Forte: Taking Law Seriously
A review of Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts
, by Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner
Joseph Postell: Of Experts and Angels
A review of Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law
, by Richard A. Epstein
Ronald J. Pestritto: A Bully's Pulpit
A review of Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition
, by Jean M. Yarbrough
Ryan P. Williams: A Neglected Statesman
A review of William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative
, by Jonathan Lurie
Charles C. Johnson: Silent Cal Speaks
A review of Calvin Coolidge Says
, by Calvin Coolidge
Michael Nelson: Too Much Information
A review of The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
, by Robert A. Caro
Benjamin Balint: Blasphemer
A review of Joseph Anton: A Memoir
, by Salman Rushdie
Michael M. Uhlmann: Wisdom of the Ages
A review of The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia
, by Roger Kimball
Angelo M. Codevilla: Courtiers
A review of Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement
, by Robert Singh; Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power
, David E. Sanger; Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy
, by Martin S. Indyk, Kenneth G. Lieberthal, and Michael E. O'Hanlon; and The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power
, by James Mann
Victor Davis Hanson: The Price of Power
A review of Proconsuls: Delegated Political-Military Leadership from Rome to America Today
, by Carnes Lord
Michael Burlingame: A People's Contest
A review of Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
, by Allen C. Guelzo and This Great Struggle: America's Civil War
, by Steven E. Woodworth
John J. DiIulio, Jr.: Why I'm Still a Democrat
A review of Spoiled Rotten: How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic
, by Jay Cost
Michael Ledeen: Bribesville
A review of Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
, by Bill Emmott
Bruce S. Thornton: Enduring Empire
A review of The Romans and their World: A Short Introduction
, by Brian Campbell; Rome: An Empire's Story
, by Greg Woolf; and Ancient Rome: From Romulus to Justinian
, by Thomas R. Martin
James Hankins: Conscience Unbound
A review of The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
, by Brad S. Gregory
Daniel J. Mahoney: Anguished Patriot
A review of The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader
, by Wilson Carey McWilliams, edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams; and Redeeming Democracy in America
, by Wilson Carey McWilliams, edited by Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams
Naomi Schaefer Riley: The Buddy of Christ
A review of The Juvenilization of American Christianity
, by Thomas E. BerglerShadow Play
Martha Bayles: The Hollywood Dialectic
Lincoln and Django Unchained represent what passes for artistic sensibility on today's Hollywood.Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: Psalm XXIII
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