Volume VII, Number 3, Summer 2007
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From the Publisher's Desk
Brian T. Kennedy: Making Americans
Essays
Charles R. Kesler: Iraq and the Neoconservatives
Beyond the Bush Doctrine.William Voegeli: Crisis of the Old Liberal Order
The eclipse of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Robert R. Reilly: Winning the War of Ideas
How to reinvigorate American public diplomacy.Michael M. Uhlmann: Taming Big Government
Congress won't and the president can't.Books in Brief
Reviews of Books
Angelo M. Codevilla: Intelligence Failures
A review of At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA, by George Tenetand Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, by John Prados
Wilfred M. McClay: A Left-Handed Salute
A review of The Intellectuals and the Flag, by Todd GitlinDiana Schaub: The Greatness and Decline of American Oratory
A review of American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil Warand American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton, edited by Ted Widmer
John C. Briggs: Statecraft and Wordcraft
A review of Lincoln’s Sword: The Presidency and the Power of Words, by Douglas L.Wilsonand The Gettysburg Gospel: The Speech that Nobody Knows, by Gabor Boritt
Carnes Lord: The Great Triumvirate
A review of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, by John O’SullivanJoseph Tartakovsky: Pith and Pen
A review of The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, edited by John GrossGiuseppe Mazzotta: Between Riddle and Revelation
A review of Dante: the Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man, by Barbara ReynoldsRoss Douthat: Lord Have Mercy
A review of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher HitchensHoward F. Ahmanson: Getting Religion
A review of Divided by God: America’s Church-State Problem—and What We Should Do About It, by Noah FeldmanRandy E. Barnett: Constitutional Conventions
A review of Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It), by Sanford LevinsonPeter Augustine Lawler: Saving Liberalism from Itself
A review of Natural Law Liberalism, by Christopher WolfeHadley Arkes: Building Democracy
A review of Architecture of Democracy: American Architecture and the Legacy of the Revolution, by Allan GreenbergDaniel J. Mahoney: A Noble and Generous Soul
A review of Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life, by Hugh Broganand Democracy’s Guide, by Joseph Epstein
James W. Ceaser: Bodiless Politics
A review of A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State, by Pierre Manent, translated by Marc LePainParthian Shot
Mark Helprin: © Inequity



