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

From the Archives: 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.

Christopher Flannery: 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

Julie Ann Ponzi: Getting Theirs

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

Ronald J. Pestritto: Leaving the Constitution

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

Steven F. Hayward: The Grand Alliance

A review of Churchill and America, by Martin Gilbert

Myra Moss: Mussolini's Brain Trust

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

Donald T. Critchlow: Queen of the Grassroots

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

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