Volume V, Number 2, Spring 2005
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Bursting the Chains
Essays
William Voegeli: False Security
The cynical idealism behind Social Security.Bradley C. S. Watson: Love's Language Lost
Same—sex "marriage" and the right to a noun.Hans L. Eicholz: A Revolutionary Historian
Appreciating Bernard Bailyn.Reviews of Books
Gerard Alexander: Freedom Fighter
A review of The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror, by Natan Sharansky with Ron DermerJoseph Tartakovsky: Strange Creatures
A review of Russia in Search of Itself, by James H. BillingtonCharles H. Fairbanks, Jr.: Tyranny And Utopia
A review of Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag MontefioreClifford Orwin: The Straussians are Coming!
A review of Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire, by Anne NortonJonathan V. Last: Malaise Forever
A review of The Real Jimmy Carter: How Our Worst Ex-President Undermines American Foreign Policy, Coddles Dictators, and Created the Party of Clinton and Kerry, by Steven F. HaywardAngelo M. Codevilla: Get Serious
A review of War and the American Presidency, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Peter S. Onuf: Professional Oversight
A review of Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud—American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin, by Peter Charles HofferDavid J. Bobb: The Future of Patriotism
A review of A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn;Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past, by Ray Raphael;
and A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror, by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen
John B. Kienker: Mainly Incorrect
A review of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.Conrad Black: No Bleeding Heart
A review of For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s, by Alonzo L. HambyMark Krikorian: No Child Left Behind
A review of The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It, by Phillip Longmanand Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future, by Ben J. Wattenberg
Noah Pickus: From Them to Us
A review of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to Be American, edited by Tamar JacobyChristine Rosen: What (Most) Women Want
A review of Taking Sex Differences Seriously, by Steven E. RhoadsRichard Samuelson: The Ancient Constitution
A review of Rule of Law: The Jurisprudence of Liberty in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by John Phillip ReidStephen B. Presser: Uncommon Law
A review of Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism, by James R. Stoner, Jr.Eric R. Claeys: Learning the Law
A review of Guardians of the Moral Order: The Legal Philosophy of the Supreme Court, 1860-1910, by Mark Warren BaileyNelson Lund: A Libertarian Constitution
A review of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, by Randy E. BarnettJohn Yoo: The "S" Word
A review of The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence, by Jeremy A. RabkinFred I. Greenstein: More with Less
A review of My Life, by Bill ClintonRichard Vedder: In Markets We Trust
A review of How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country from the Pilgrims to the Present, by Thomas J. DiLorenzoThomas Blau: The World at Work
A review of Why Globalization Works, by Martin Wolf;In Defense of Globalization, by Jagdish Bhagwati;
and Globalization and Its Discontents, by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Peter McNamara: The Limits of Spontaneous Order
A review of Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek, by Bruce Caldwelland Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek, by Alan Ebenstein
Douglas E. Streusand: New Totalitarians
A review of New Political Religions, or an Analysis of Modern Terrorism, by Barry CooperRobert R. Reilly: The Highest Things
A review of Roman Catholic Political Philosophy, by James V. SchallYishaiya Abosch: Modern Republicans
A review of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England, by Vickie B. SullivanMichael P. Zuckert: Redeeming the Enlightenment
A review of The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, by Gertrude HimmelfarbSusan D. Collins: Rediscovering the Self
A review of The Vehement Passions, by Philip FisherThomas Meaney: Latin America's Greatest Storyteller
A review of Borges: A Life, by Edwin WilliamsonCum Dignitate Otium
Christopher Flannery: Be Good, Be Good
Advice from Mark Twain.
