Volume VI, Number 4, Fall 2006

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Our Predicament

Correspondence

Essays

Mark Helprin: The War in Lebanon

Why Israel won this battle, but greater ones lie ahead.

Larry P. Arnn: Why the GOP is Flunking Higher Education

The Republicans risk turning America's universities into a federally-funded no-truth zone.

William Voegeli: The Era of Big Ideas is Over

Will liberals embrace a future of ad hocery?

Peter W. Schramm: Born American, But in the Wrong Place

A personal reflection on the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution.

John Rosenthal: The Road to Condemning Guantanamo

The Nazis, moral equivalence, and the U.N. Guantanamo report.

Barry Rubin: The Rise and Decline of al-Qaeda

How al-Qaeda, once a pioneer among Islamists, has become outmoded.

Andrew E. Busch: Books in Brief

Reviews of Books

Theodore Dalrymple: Suicide of the West

Reviews of While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within, by Bruce Bawer;
Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too, by Claire Berlinski;
and Londonistan, by Melanie Phillips

Richard Samuelson: Faith-based Liberalism

A review of The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, by Peter Beinart

Gerard Alexander: The Cost of Good Intentions

A review of The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, by William Easterly

R. Shep Melnick: The $10,000 Solution?

A review of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray

William F. Buckley, Jr.: Amicus Brief

A review of Friendship: An Exposé, by Joseph Epstein

Mark Blitz: Giving Honor Its Due

A review of Honor: A History, by James Bowman

John Yoo: The Pettifoggery of War

A review of Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways by Alan M. Dershowitz

Daniel Walker Howe: In Search of a Public Philosophy

A review of Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate, by James W. Ceaser, with responses by Jack N. Rakove, Nancy L. Rosenblum, and Rogers M. Smith

Forrest McDonald: Sage Advice

A review of What Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers, by Richard Brookhiser

Jean Edward Smith: A People's History of Reconstruction

A review of Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, by Eric Foner

Justin Shubow: The Prince and the Dandy

A review of The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men's Style, by Nicholas Antongiavanni

Robert Royal: What Hath God Wrought?

A review of The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success, by Rodney Stark

Patrick J. Garrity: Americas' Game

A review of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, by David Maraniss

Benjamin Balint: Spinning Spinoza

A review of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein

Katherine Auspitz: If Men Were Angels

A review of Earthly Powers: The Clash of Religion and Politics in Europe, from the French Revolution to the Great War, by Michael Burleigh

Robert M. Collins: Respecting Reagan

A review of President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination, by Richard Reeves

Barton Swaim: Florid Balderdash

A review of The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World, by Jerome McGann

Stephen B. Presser: We, the People

A review of America's Constitution: A Biography, by Akhil Reed Amar

Diana Schaub: Mystic Chords of Memory

A review of Lincoln's American Dream: Clashing Political Perspectives, edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and Joseph R. Fornieri

Elihu Grant: The Right Stuff

A review of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia, edited by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson

Charles Geshekter: Beating Ploughshares into Swords

A review of The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair, by Martin Meredith

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Birth of a Blockbuster

An inside look at Dan Brown's new novel.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: The Worst Generation Faces the Greatest Peril