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Volume XIII, Number 1, Winter 2012/13

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. Bergler

Shadow 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

Newly Revised, Rearranged, Expanded, and Corrected According to Modern Principles.

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