Volume VIII, Number 4, Fall 2008

Correspondence

Conservatism and Civil Rights; Understanding Clarence Thomas; Chinese Influence; Judicial Supremacy

Essays

Charles R. Kesler: The Audacity of Barack Obama

Taking the Democratic nominee seriously.

William Voegeli: Reforming Big Government

The welfare state can’t go on indefinitely, but it does.

James W. Ceaser: The Presidential Nomination Mess

Every four years, it's a whole new ball game—with different rules.

Paul A. Cantor: Is There Intelligent Life on Television?

The small screen's new sophistication.

Reviews of Books

Jakub J. Grygiel: Georgia on My Mind

A review of The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West, by Edward Lucas

Edward Alexander: First, Survive

A review of Jews and Power , by Ruth R. Wisse

Steven Emerson: Eyes Wide Open

A review of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad, by Andrew C. McCarthy

Gerard Alexander: Sirens of Davos

A review of The Post-American World, by Fareed Zakaria

Douglas A. Jeffrey: Confused About Conservatism

A review of White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, by Allan J. Lichtman
and Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, by Paul Edward Gottfried

John Derbyshire: When Worlds Collide

A review of The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, by Hugh Kennedy
and God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215, by David Levering Lewis

R. Shep Melnick: Raising the Bar

A review of The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law , by Stephen M. Teles

Cheryl Miller: Bad Little Fictions

A review of House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family, by Paul Fisher

Jeremy Rabkin: Leafing Through Old Books

A review of The Social Contract in America: From the Revolution to the Present Age , by Mark Hulliung

Richard Samuelson: Political History for a Political Nation

A review of American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, by Joseph J. Ellis
and The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 , by Jay Winik

James V. DeLong: Property Rights and the Web

A review of The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It, by Jonathan Zittrain

Angelo M. Codevilla: Inside the Box

A review of Terror and Consent : The Wars for the Twenty-First Century, by Philip Bobbitt

Jean M. Yarbrough: Progressive Conservative?

A review of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, by Joshua David Hawley

Benjamin Balint: In the Beginning

A review of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, by Benny Morris

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