Volume VII, Number 2, Spring 2007
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Bring Back the Constitution
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.Steven F. Hayward: 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 SteynJonah 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'SouzaMichael M. Uhlmann: A Tell-All with Nothing to Tell
A review of The Theocons: Secular America Under Siege, by Damon LinkerJakub 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
Richard Vedder: Made in America
A review of Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America, by Eric RauchwayPeter 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 ItWinning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America
and White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
Victor Davis Hanson: Church Militant
A review of God's War: A New History of the CrusadesRonald Cluett: Alexander in Afghanistan
A review of The Afghan Campaign: A novelJeremy Rabkin: Forging a Nation
A review of Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil WarRamesh Ponnuru: Unnatural Acts
A review of Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of LifeSvetozar Minkov: Philosophy and Revelation
A review of Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political ProblemSteven J. Lenzner: Guide for the Perplexed
A review of Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political ProblemBruce S. Thornton: Cultivated Taste
A review of The Georgics of Virgil: Bilingual EditionColin Dueck: Arms and the Man
A review of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Todayand Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy
Thomas R. Martin: From Polis to Imperium
A review of The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to HadrianPatrick J. Garrity: New World Order
A review of Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World, from it's Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th CenturyShadow 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





