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.Bradley C. S. Watson: Books in Brief
Harry V. Jaffa and Michael M. Uhlmann discuss constitutional jurisprudence.Reviews of Books
Michael 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 WrightMichael P. Zuckert: Just Examples
A review of Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of IdeasScott Yenor: A New Deal for Roosevelt
A review of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of HopeFred Siegel: Silver-Tongued Democrat
A review of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings BryanGlen E. Thurow: God of Battles
A review of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil WarJohn O'Sullivan: Dateline—Greeneland
A review of The Foreign Correspondent: A NovelChristopher Levenick: Like a Mighty Wind
A review of Our Endangered Values: America's Moral CrisisThe Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future
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
Christopher Hitchens: Theater of War
A review of The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to KatrinaJoseph M. Knippenberg: The Buck Stopped Here
A review of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal InternationalismKen I. Kersch: Supreme Wit
A review of Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and TraditionJohn Derbyshire: The Mad, the Grim, and the Sot
A review of Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman EmpirePatrick Chamorel: L'Américain
A review of Testimony: France in the Twenty-first CenturyAngelo M. Codevilla: Strategically Challenged
A review of State of Denial: Bush at War, Part IIIJames W. Ceaser: Looking Backward
A review of Interpreting the Founding: Guide to the Enduring Debates Over the Origins and Foundations of the American RepublicNicholas Capaldi: Classical Liberal
A review of Reforming Liberalism: J.S. Mill's Use of Ancient, Religious, Liberal, and Romantic MoralitiesThomas 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 MettlerRichard Brookhiser: Hacks Americana
A review of Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American JournalismGerard Alexander: Blame America First
A review of America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are DislikedJoseph Tartakovsky: Ungrateful Volcano
A review of The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in IraqEva Brann: The Appreciative Mode
A review of The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel TrillingShadow 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





