Volume VII, Number 4, Fall 2007
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From the Editor's Desk
Charles R. Kesler: Forcing the Spring
Promoting Democracy Abroad; Winning the Middle East; American Patriotism; Creed and Culture; Copyright Law; Democratic Republicanism; The Truth about Leo StraussEssays
William Voegeli: The Trouble with Limited Government
Are we all big-government conservatives now?Steven F. Hayward: Reagan and the Historians
Giving the Gipper his due.Angelo M. Codevilla: American Statecraft and the Iraq War
Learning from our mistakes.John J. Pitney, Jr.: Books in Brief
Brief reviews of Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy, by Colin Dueck;The End of Government...As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work, by Elaine C. Kamarck;
and The Inner Vision: Liberty and Literature, edited by Edward B. McLean.
Reviews of Books
Harvey Sicherman: A Thousand and One Nights
A review of Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, by Michael B. OrenCharles R. Kesler: No Euphoria Yet
A review of Making War to Keep Peace, by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick;World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, by Norman Podhoretz;
and Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions, by John Agresto
Bradley C. S. Watson: Behind the Veil of Ignorance
A review of Illiberal Justice: John Rawls vs. the American Political Tradition
, by David Lewis Schaefer
Algis Valiunas: Aryan Sister
A review of Leni Riefenstahl: A Life
, by Jürgen Trimborn, translated by Edna McCownand Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
, by Steven Bach
David L. Tubbs: From Under the Rubble
A review of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, edited by Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney
Joseph Tartakovsky: Mother Tongue
A review of Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
, by Seth Lerer
Christopher Nadon: Back to the Cave
A review of Plato Republic
, by Plato, translated by Joe Sachsand The Republic
, by Plato, translated by R.E. Allen
Cheryl Miller: The Genius of Old New York
A review of Edith Wharton
, by Hermione Lee
Mark A. Heberle: Making It New
A review of The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
, by Milan Kundera
John Derbyshire: China Discovers the West
A review of The Dragon and the Foreign Devils: China and the World, 1100 B.C. to the Present
, by Harry G. Gelber
Eva Brann: Welcome to Colonus
A review of The Theban Plays of Sophocles
, translated by David R. Slavitt
Mark Blitz: The Broad Ground of Courage
A review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage
, by Linda R. Rabieh
Michael Barone: Land of the Free
A review of America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War
and America: The Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom
, by William J. BennettShadow Play
Martha Bayles: Out of Focus
Martin Scorsese’s The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original.Parthian Shot
Mark Helprin: A Rare Alignment
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