Volume VIII, Number 2, Spring 2008

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From the Editor's Desk

Charles R. Kesler: Buckley's Legacy

Correspondence

Losing the Iraq War; Islamic Tribal Terrorism; Kurt Vonnegut, Conservative?

Essays

James W. Ceaser: What a Long, Strange Race It's Been

With no new thinking to offer the candidates offer...themselves.

Harvey C. Mansfield: The Common Form of All the Virtues

A sermon on charity in deed and speech.

Michael M. Uhlmann: When Law is Not Enough

Lawyers and legislators can only go so far in directing the conduct of war. Then you need a president.

Carl J. Schramm: Economics and the Entrepreneur

How the 20th-century debate on economics shaped the 21st-century economy.

Harry V. Jaffa: God Bless America

What Senator Obama and Reverend Wright don't know about their country.

Larry P. Arnn: Thoughts and Adventures

Celebrating the eight-volume Winston S. Churchill, a biography worthy of a great man.

Locus Classicus

John Patrick Diggins: The Education of Henry Adams

Reviews of Books

Daniel Oliver: A Born Teacher

A review of Strictly Right: William F. Buckley Jr. and the American Conservative Movement, by Linda Bridges and John R. Coyne, Jr.; and Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from National Review, by William F. Buckley, Jr.

Ronald J. Pestritto: A Nicer Form of Tyranny

A review of Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah Goldberg

Ross Douthat: Against the Atheists

A review of What’s So Great About Christianity, by Dinesh D’Souza

Peter Berkowitz: The Persistence of Religion

A review of A Secular Age, by Charles Taylor

Joseph M. Bessette: Science and Faith

A review of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, by Michael Behe;
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, by Francis S. Collins;
and God’s Universe, by Owen Gingerich

John J. Pitney, Jr.: Not a Hugger

A review of Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, by Stephen F. Hayes

Alan Gibson: Property vs. Democracy

A review of Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison, by Stephen L. Elkin

Allen C. Guelzo: States' Rights and Wrongs

A review of The Road to Disunion, Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854, and The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861, by William W. Freehling

Robert G. Ingram: From the New to the Old Whigs

A review of Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America’s Founding Fathers, by Michael Barone

Michael Knox Beran: He Was No Alexander Hamilton

A review of Fallen Founder: A Life of Aaron Burr, by Nancy Isenberg

Joseph Tartakovsky: Golden Juggler

A review of In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage, by Joseph Epstein

Cheryl Miller: The Master

A review of The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology, by P.G. Wodehouse

Parthian Shot

Mark Helprin: McCain Mutiny