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Volume XI, Number 4, Fall 2011
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Debating the Debates
Correspondence
Liberals and Leftists; Conservative Foreign Policy; Federalism Lost; The Moynihan ReportEssays
Mark Helprin: The Central Proposition
America's misguided effort to transform the Arab Middle East.Angelo M. Codevilla: The Lost Decade
Ten years after 9/11, America has neither peace nor victory.David F. Forte: May It Please the Court
Michael M. Uhlmann: The Need for Natural Law
William Voegeli: Diane Ravitch Takes It All Back
But she had it right the first time.Kathleen Arnn: Scouts' Honor
The Boy Scout Handbook at 100.Michael Anton: Sour Grapes
Napa Valley is California, only more so.Hadley Arkes: A Natural Law Manifesto
With replies by David F. Forte and Michael M. Uhlmann.Reviews of Books
Ross Douthat: The Art of Persuasion
A review of The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009, by Irving KristolCharles Horner: New World Order?
A review of On China, by Henry KissingerStanley Kurtz: Getting to Democracy
A review of The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, by Francis FukuyamaCharles Murray: One-Dimensional Man
A review of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, by David BrooksDorothea Israel Wolfson: Modern Family
A review of Family Politics: The Idea of Marriage in Modern Political Thought, by Scott YenorRichard A. Epstein: A New Birth of Economic Freedom
A review of Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform, by David E. BernsteinRichard E. Morgan: Standing in the Need of Prayer
A review of Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World, by Jack M. BalkinJoseph Postell: The Incredible Shrinking Presidency
A review of The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic, by Eric A. PosnerJames R. Stoner, Jr.: Redeeming Higher Education
A review of The Faculty Lounges, and Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Paid For, by Naomi Schaefer Riley;Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities, by Mark Taylor;
Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids-and What We Can Do About It, by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus;
and Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
Algis Valiunas: De Luxe
A review of Triumvirate: McKim, Mead, & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America’s Gilded Age, by Mosette BroderickShadow Play
Martha Bayles: Oprah's World Mission
The high priestess of Change-Your-Life TV.Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: The Boitnott Doctrine
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