Volume VIII, Number 1, Winter 2007

From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Indecision 2008

Correspondence

Big Government's Intractability; Rawls and Islamofacism; Socratic Irony

Essays

Victor Davis Hanson: In War: Resolution

Mistakes are inevitable; victory is not.

Andrew E. Busch: November Surprise

Is the election over before it begins?

Patrick J. Deneen: Folk Tales

Appreciating Kurt Vonnegut.

Stanley Kurtz: Tribes of Terror

The social roots of jihad.

Locus Classicus

Harry V. Jaffa: Macbeth and the Moral Universe

Reviews of Books

Jonah Goldberg: The Raw Deal

A review of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes

William Schambra: Debating the New Deal

A review of The Two Faces of Liberalism: How the Hoover-Roosevelt Debate Shapes the 21st Century, edited by Gordon Lloyd

Ramesh Ponnuru: Econ Artist

A review of The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics, by Jonathan Chait

Harvey C. Mansfield: Timeless Mind

A review of Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: the Making of a Political Philosopher, by Eugene R. Sheppard
and Leo Strauss: An Intellectual Biography, by Daniel Tanguay, translated by Christopher Nadon

Ken Masugi: O Captain! My Captain!

A review of Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, by Andrew Ferguson

Michael P. Zuckert: Confronting Dred Scott

A review of Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery , by Earl M. Maltz
and Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , by Mark A. Graber

Matthew J. Franck: Whistling Dixie

A review of Politically Incorrect Guide To The Constitution , by Kevin R.C. Gutzman

Midge Decter: Growing Up American

A review of The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, by Diana West

F. Carolyn Graglia: For the Children

A review of Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age, by Kay S. Hymowitz
and The Future of Marriage, by David Blankenhorn

Anthony Esolen: Loss Upon Loss

A review of The Aeneid, by Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles
and Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid, by J.D. Reed

John Fonte: Books in Brief

Shadow Play

Martha Bayles: Whatever It Takes

War and torture get the Hollywood treatment.

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: The New Soft Underbelly of Europe

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