Volume VII, Number 1, Winter 2006

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: After the Thumping

Correspondence

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

The Disputed Question

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 Wright

Michael P. Zuckert: Just Examples

A review of Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas, by Francis Oakley

Scott Yenor: A New Deal for Roosevelt

A review of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, by Jonathan Alter

Fred Siegel: Silver-Tongued Democrat

A review of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan, by Michael Kazin

Glen E. Thurow: God of Battles

A review of Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, by Mark A. Noll

John O'Sullivan: Dateline—Greeneland

A review of The Foreign Correspondent: A Novel, by Alan Furst

Christopher 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

Christopher 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 Rich

Joseph 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 Spalding

Ken I. Kersch: Supreme Wit

A review of Antonin Scalia's Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition, by Ralph A. Rossum

John Derbyshire: The Mad, the Grim, and the Sot

A review of Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire, by Caroline Finkel

Patrick Chamorel: L'Américain

A review of Testimony: France in the Twenty-first Century, by Nicolas Sarkozy

Angelo M. Codevilla: Strategically Challenged

A review of State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward

James 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 Gibson

Nicholas Capaldi: Classical Liberal

A review of Reforming Liberalism: J.S. Mill's Use of Ancient, Religious, Liberal, and Romantic Moralities, by Robert Devigne

Thomas 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 Mettler

Richard Brookhiser: Hacks Americana

A review of Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism, by Eric Burns

Gerard Alexander: Blame America First

A review of America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked, by Julia E. Sweig

Joseph Tartakovsky: Ungrateful Volcano

A review of The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq, by Fouad Ajami

Eva Brann: The Appreciative Mode

A review of The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling, by Gertrude Himmelfarb

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