Volume VI, Number 2, Spring 2006

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Hard Questions

Correspondence

Essays

Jeffrey Hart: Our Literature of Extremes

The radical individualism of American letters.

Harvey C. Mansfield: The Debacle at Harvard

Larry Summers's resignation is demeaning for all involved.

Victor Davis Hanson: France's Immigrant Problem—and Ours

Can last year's car burnings and riots happen here?

Harry V. Jaffa: Who Owns the Copyright to the Universe?

Evolution in itself revels an intelligent design.

Richard E. Morgan: The Failure of the Rehnquist Court

The counterrevolution that wasn't.

Symposium

How to Eliminate Iran's Nuclear Weapons

Featuring Ilan Berman, Patrick Clawson, Angelo M. Codevilla, Efraim Halevy, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Helprin, and Josef Joffe.

Books in Brief

Reviews of Books

Diana Schaub: Man's Field

A review of Manliness, by Harvey C. Mansfield

Joseph M. Bessette: The War Over the War Powers

A review of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11, by John Yoo

Charles A. Lofgren: Hijacking History

A review of War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution, by Peter Irons

Benjamin Balint: God and Harold at Yale

A review of Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine, by Harold Bloom

Cheryl Miller: The One That Got Away

A review of Melville: His World and Work, by Andrew Delbanco

John D. Mueller: Dismal Science

A review of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Eric R. Claeys: Taking the Constitution Seriously

A review of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, edited by Edwin Meese III, Matthew Spalding, and David Forte

Richard Samuelson: Twice-Told Tales

A review of Henry Adams and the Making of America, by Garry Wills

Donald T. Critchlow: Queen of the Grassroots

A review of Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade by Donald T. Critchlow

Julie Ann Ponzi: Getting Theirs

A review of Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy

Steven F. Hayward: The Grand Alliance

A review of Churchill and America, by Martin Gilbert

Ronald J. Pestritto: Leaving the Constitution

A review of Politics and Administration: A Study in Government, by Frank J. Goodnow

Myra Moss: Mussolini's Brain Trust

A review of Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought by A. James Gregor

Cum Dignitate Otium

Joseph Tartakovsky: The Opiate of the Masses

Drinking vodka like a Russian.

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Crossing the Rubicon

HBO gets Rome right.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: Constitution or Tyranny