Volume VII, Number 1, Winter 2006
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: After the Thumping
Essays
Steven F. Hayward: The Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood
Reassessing liberalism’s favorite historian.Paul A. Cantor: Playwright of the Globe
Shakespeare tried to understand the world, and now the world tries to understand him.Hadley Arkes: The Constitution and Mr. Bush
Why the president cannot leave constitutional interpretation to the courts.Steven F. Hayward: R.I.P.: Leonard W. Levy
Steven F. Hayward remembers a great Claremont teacher and scholar.Books in Brief
Harry V. Jaffa and Michael M. Uhlmann discuss constitutional jurisprudence.Reviews of Books
Joseph Tartakovsky: Ungrateful Volcano
A review of The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq, by Fouad AjamiChristopher Hitchens: Theater of War
A review of The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina, by Frank RichAngelo M. Codevilla: Strategically Challenged
A review of State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob WoodwardGerard Alexander: Blame America First
A review of America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked, by Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokesand Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century, by Julia E. Sweig
Patrick Chamorel: L'Américain
A review of Témoignage, by Nicolas SarkozyMichael Barone: Counting Your Blessings
A review of Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin WrightRichard Brookhiser: Hacks Americana
A review of Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, by Eric BurnsJames W. Ceaser: Looking Backward
A review of Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates over the Origins and Foundations of the American Republic, by Alan GibsonJohn Derbyshire: The Mad, the Grim, and the Sot
A review of Osman’s Dream, by Caroline FinkelJohn O'Sullivan: Dateline—Greeneland
A review of The Foreign Correspondent, by Alan FurstEva Brann: The Appreciative Mode
A review of The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, by Gertrude HimmelfarbNicholas Capaldi: Classical Liberal
A review of Reforming Liberalism: J. S. Mill’s Use of Ancient, Religious, Liberal, and Romantic Moralities, by Robert DevigneMichael P. Zuckert: Just Examples
A review of Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity And Discontinuity in the History of Ideas, by Francis OakleyKen I. Kersch: Supreme Wit
A review of Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition, by Ralph A. RossumGlen E. Thurow: God of Battles
A review of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War, by Harry S. Stoutand The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, by Mark A. Noll
Fred Siegel: Silver-Tongued Democrat
A review of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, by Michael KazinScott Yenor: A New Deal for Roosevelt
A review of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan AlterThomas A. Bruscino, Jr.: No Soldier Left Behind
A review of Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation, by Suzanne MettlerJoseph M. Knippenberg: The Buck Stopped Here
A review of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism, by Elizabeth Edwards SpaldingChristopher Levenick: Like a Mighty Wind
A review of Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis, by Jimmy Carter;The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right, by Michael Lerner;
Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: A Minister’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future, by Robin Meyers;
The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate, by Dan Wakefield;
and God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It, by Jim Wallis
Shadow Play
Martha Bayles: Reel Queens
The Queen and Marie Antoinette ask whether the modern world can understand monarchy anymore.Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: The Literary Tenor of the Times
