Volume VII, Number 2, Spring 2007

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Bring Back the Constitution

Correspondence

Essays

William Voegeli: Oh, What A Tangled Webb

Democrats want to love the senator's problematic populism.

Harvey C. Mansfield: The Case for the Strong Executive

Now is not the time to fear the imperial presidency.

Algis Valiunas: Encountering Islam

Western travelers in the Muslim world.

Douglas A. Jeffrey: Larry McMurtry and the American West

A novelist who chronicles strong lives, despite himself.

Books in Brief

Reviews of Books

Theodore Dalrymple: The Gelded Age

A review of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, by Mark Steyn

Patrick J. Garrity: New World Order

A review of Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, by Robert Kagan

Colin Dueck: Arms and the Man

A review of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today, by Max Boot
and Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy, by Frederick W. Kagan

Jonah Goldberg: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

A review of The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, by Dinesh D'Souza

Michael M. Uhlmann: A Tell-All with Nothing to Tell

A review of The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege, by Damon Linker

Victor Davis Hanson: Church Militant

A review of God’s War: A New History of the Crusades, by Christopher Tyerman

Ronald Cluett: Alexander in Afghanistan

A review of The Afghan Campaign: A Novel, by Steven Pressfield

Thomas R. Martin: From Polis to Imperium

A review of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian, by Robin Lane Fox

Jakub J. Grygiel: Empire and Its Discontents

A review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks;
The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire, by Harold James;
and Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors, by Charles S. Maier

Bruce S. Thornton: Cultivated Taste

A review of The Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual Edition, translated by David Ferry
and Virgil's Georgics, translated by Janet Lembke

Steven J. Lenzner: Guide for the Perplexed

A review of Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy, by Thomas L. Pangle;
Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism, by Steven B. Smith;
and The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy, by Catherine H. Zuckert and Michael Zuckert

Svetozar Minkov: Philosophy and Revelation

A review of Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem, by Heinrich Meier, translated by Marcus Brainard

Ramesh Ponnuru: Unnatural Acts

A review of Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life, by Lee M. Silver

Richard Vedder: Made in America

A review of Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America, by Eric Rauchway

Peter C. Myers: Up from Victimhood

A review of Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining
Black America—and What We Can Do About It, by Juan Williams;
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America, by John McWhorter;
and White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, by Shelby Steele

Jeremy Rabkin: Forging a Nation

A review of Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War, by Nicholas Onuf and Peter S. Onuf

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Cultural Learnings for Make Benefit Glorious Comedy of Sacha Baron Cohen

The merciless comic keeps hitting below the Borscht Belt.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: China as a Rising Nuclear Power